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 51
most of the characteristicsexhibited in earliest examples. Though remarkable fortheir near approach to accuracy, it aj)pears not a littlesurprising that the learned chart-makers of the sixteenthcentury did not in general accept them at their valueuntil Ptolemys maps, by actual astronomical… … 28 BIBLIOGRAPHY Herodotus: History. Vide passages relating to Near-chus, Hanno, Scylax, et al. Pliny: Natural History, iii-vi. Carolus Mullerus [Ed.] : Geographi grseci minores,i., pp. 15-96. Vide for the text of Scylax, i., pp.427-514, for the text of the Stadiasmos. Ptoi-emy: Vide various…
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