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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London
Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press
1992
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| Institutions: | Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh |
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