I was going to complain that the images in the pdfs are really bad quality, but then again, so they are in many art history books, and given the name it is pretty easy to just google higher resolution images of the map.
People love to talk about how quickly the information society has changed the world, but if you look at the renaissance it's just mindblowing how much happened there in such a short time span as well.
The chapter about map projections in the renaissance is pretty awesome btw: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V3_Pt1/HOC_VOLUM... and for example this 1515 beauty by German artist Albrecht Dürer and the Austrian scientist Johannes Stabius: http://www.buzemann.de/luther/Stabius.jpg
People love to talk about how quickly the information society has changed the world, but if you look at the renaissance it's just mindblowing how much happened there in such a short time span as well.