Portolan charts; their origin and characteristics, with a descriptive list of those belonging to the Hispanic society of America (1911)
Stevenson, Edward Luther, 1858-1944, Parr, Charles McKew donor, Parr, Ruth, donor, Hispanic Society of America · New York [The Knickerbocker Press] · leaf 36
1597. Portolan charts have been preserved in very largenumber, of which number near one hundred antedate 1500.In the sixteenth century unaltered in their fundamentalcharacter but more highly decorated than those of thefourteenth century, and having additional details, theybecome far more numerous.… … 7. CONTE DE OTHOMANO FREDUCCI, 1537 CHART TWO OF ATLAS. by the seamen of the Italian and of the eastern IberianPeninsula; a leadership held for near half a millennium,beginning as early as the eleventh century, and continu-ing until America had been discovered, Africa had beencircumnavigated, and…
Nautical charts · Navigation · Cartography
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