sentences:  He points out that the geographers and map makers of the Renaissance struggled to bridge the gap from the world view inherited from Graeco-Roman antiquity, as set out in Claudius Ptolemy's "Geography", and a map of the world that would take account of the new geographical information obtained during the Age of Discoveries.The Dieppe world maps reflected the state of geographical knowledge of their time, both actual and theoretical.Accordingly, Java Major, or Jave la Grande, was shown as a promontory of the undiscovered Antarctic continent of Terra Australis.