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Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 Elie Assis Experts in the fields ofBeginning around 1500, in the decades following Columbus's voyages, the Atlantic Ocean moved from the periphery to the center on European world maps. This brief but highly significant moment in early modern European history marks not only a paradigm shift in how the world was mapped but also the opening of what historians call the Atlantic World. But how did sixteenth century chartmakers and mapmakers begin to conceptualize'and present to the