Today in 1475, the first printed maps were published in Lübeck, Germany, in Rudimentum novitiorum sive chronicarum historiarum epitome by printer Lucas Brandis.
This history of the world for beginners, published some 25 years after the invention of printing from moveable type, contained the first printed maps. One was a circular world map centered on the Holy Land. The other was a map of the Holy Land with Jerusalem at its center, based on an earlier map by Burchardus de Monte Sion (Burchard of Mount Zion), a 13th-century Dominican priest who traveled extensively through the Holy Land and the Middle East in 1274-84.