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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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Khan, Geoffrey
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: Muʼassasat Nūr al-Ḥusayn
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: by Geoffrey Khan
Γλώσσα:Undetermined
English
Έκδοση: London Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press 1992
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Περίληψη: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 his Kitab-i-Bahriye (Book of Seamanship), which he illustrated with hundreds of charts derived principally from medieval portolans. The Khalili Portolan Atlas is a fine, hand-drawn example of the cartographic tradition established by Piri Reis. It also contains a series of city views, including unprecedented depictions of Galata, on the northern shore of the Golden Horn, and of Candia in Crete, which reflect the vitality of Ottoman topographical painting in the late 17th centure. Professor Soucek shows how Piri Reis' works represented a fusion of the Islamic world view with European map-making traditions, modified by his own experience as a navigator, and by the recent discoveries of Columbus
Φυσική περιγραφή:262 p.
ill.
31 cm
Βιβλιογραφία:Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-[175])
ISBN:019727501X
9780197275016