Piri Reis & Turkish mapmaking after Columbus the Khalili portolan atlas

The Ottoman naval commander and cartographer Piri Reis (1475-1554) played a leading role in transmitting the discoveries made on Columbus' first voyage to the New World to the inhabitants of the Muslim lands around the Mediterranean. His work is known from fragments of two world maps, and from...

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Auteur principal: Khan, Geoffrey
Collectivité auteur: Muʼassasat Nūr al-Ḥusayn
Autres auteurs: by Geoffrey Khan
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Publié: London Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press 1992
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