This interesting 1493 map by Hartmann Schedel was made within 50 years of the invention of the printer and before Columbus’s voyage. As this is a map of the Old World, Africa, Scandinavia, and the Americas aren’t shown, and the Indian Ocean is incorrectly landlocked. Instead, the map depicts Ethiopia, Syria, Jerusalem, and India. This map was mainly influenced by Ptolemy’s Geographia. The creatures in the left panel reflect monsters, which by many sailors’ accounts, existed overseas. The three figures in the corners are Noah’s sons Japhet, Shem, and Ham who, according to the Bible, repopulated the Earth after the flood. This map first appeared in the Nuremberg Chronicle, which was a chronicle of the world from Creation to 1493. This book was one of the first to pair elaborate illustrations and text. Beforehand, such embellishments were strictly reserved for religious texts. The book was translated to German shortly after publication, and it went on to rival Ptolemy’s Geographia success as a revolutionary account of history and geography for its time.