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Portolan chart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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JPEG2000 unfortunately, which makes this a little less than ideal technically but still very high resolution and a substantial improvement over the previous lead image at portolan chart. Surprisingly, neither cartography or history ... Articles this image appears in Cartography, Portolan chart, History of cartography...
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oriented with South at the top;
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Drawn on sheepskin, portolan charts show coastal features and main ports. The straight lines crisscrossing the charts represent the 32 directions of the ...
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In the thirteenth century a new type of chart, the portolan chart emerged. A cartographic revolution. They were created by mariners who plotted coastlines along constant compass bearings. Wind roses indicated directional bearings.
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Anonymous nautical chart in portolan style probably drawn in Genoa. Covers Mediterranean Sea from the Balearic Islands to the Levantine coast; ...
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Portolan maps were generated by mariners who plotted coastlines along constant compass bearings. Even before the discovery of America they provided some of the most reliable information about geography.
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MS fragment; vellum; 130 x 159 mm ... A fragment of a 'portolano', a medieval navigational map, presumably the eastern central portion of the map covering the Mediterranean region. The fragment shows most of Greece and the islands, and the southern part of the Italian peninsula. ... 120. A Fragment of a Portolan Chart...
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; This beautiful portolan chart was made by Albino de Canepa, a Genoese cartographer about whom little is known. ... Often Italian portolan charts are described as being less ornate than the Catalan (Spanish) style, but if the Spanish portolan charts are more decorative, Canepa has certainly borrowed from them in his...
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From the Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean to the Plane Chart of the Atlantic: Cartometric Analysis and Modelling Maps of Portugal in the Eighteenth ...
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