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	Antiquarian Maps & Prints ::
		However, Edrisi's map and Fra Mauro's Mappo mundo of the fifteenth century (which were supposed to represent an advance of world cartography from Ptolemy's basic conception of the then known world) produced in fact many inaccuracies about Ceylon.
		The kingdom of Kandy is indicated on the map, but no further detail was possible until the central mountain fortress was penetrated in numerous forays and military manoeuvres from the coast during the seventeenth, eighteenth and even the early nineteenth centuries.
		The shape of the island shown in maps changed with the accumulation of knowledge - from the triangular shape Ptolemy ascribed to it in the second century A.D. to the pentagonal and rectilinear shape of the sixteenth century, and finally to the tear-drop shape of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
	www.artsrilanka.org /maps/body.html (2797 words)

	Medieval World Maps: A Comparative Study
		With the Munich 'Isidore' Map and the Sawley Map of the early and late 12th century respectively, it is possible to watch the outlines becoming less distinct and the decoration becoming more dramatic, with angels and fantastic creatures appearing.
		The larger maps of the Hugh of St Victor group are populated with mythical creatures such as the Unicorn and Bonacon, both of which were created from a combination of people's observation, imagination and exaggeration.
		Maps such as the Fra Mauro World Map closely mirror the contemporary charts and are relatively unadorned.
	www.britannia.com /history/herefords/mapmundi.html (899 words)

	1421 - The year China discovered the world - Maps
		This map was drawn in 1459 by Fra Mauro, a cartographer based on the island of San Michele in the Venetian Lagoon, but working for Dom Pedro of Portugal.
		Fra Mauro has correctly drawn the Cape of Good Hope (which he had called Cap de Diab) with its easily identifiable triangular shape, and had done so 30 years before Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape.
		The Jean Rotz map was drawn by esteemed cartographer Jean Rotz, the official 'hydrographer' to King Henry VIII.
	www.1421.tv /maps.asp (976 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: A Mapmaker's Dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Venice, located at the northern end of the Adriatic Sea, was the crossroads of the world; to the north, the heart of Europe, to the east, the vastness of Asia, and the sea routes to the south led to the East and the Americas.
		As a mapmaker, Fra Mauro is a conduit for knowledge, greeting travelers, from the far-gazing sailor with salt still in his beard, to the bone-weary merchant dusty from the caravan's trail.
		Fra Mauro is at times full of self-doubt, gnawed at by the frustration of never having traveled himself, and prone at times to self-loathing for just this reason.
	www.bookpage.com /9610bp/nonfiction/amapmakersdream.html (439 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 1458-60, Fra Mauro, a Camaldolese monk at Venice, and his workshop prepared a vast world map or "mappamundi", the first copy of which was sent to the king of Portugal.
		In another sense, Fra Mauro's map embodies the dawning era of empirical or critical cartography.
		However, the fundamental question is whether this map stands at a turning point (e.g., from medieval to modern cartography) or is rather a typically heterodox product of a complex environment that points to itself, not forward to "empirical cartography".
	www.ualberta.ca /~englishd/gow.htm (218 words)

	The Story of Geographical Discovery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Within forty years the map of Africa, which was practically a blank in the interior, and, as will be shown, was better known in 1680 than in 1850, has been filled up almost completely by researches due to motives of conquest, of trade, or of scientific curiosity.
		Accordingly, the oldest map of the world which has been found is one accompanying a cuneiform inscription, and representing the plain of Mesopotamia with the Euphrates flowing through it, and the whole surrounded by two concentric circles, which are named briny waters.
		His map (generally known as the Catalan Map, from the language of the inscriptions plentifully scattered over it) is divided into eight horizontal strips, and on the preceding page will be found a reduced reproduction, showing how very accurately the coast line of the Mediterranean was reproduced in these portulanos.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/4/2/9/14291/14291-h/14291-h.htm (17404 words)

	Biblioteca Marciana newsletter n.6 - ""Fra' Mauro" Workshop at the IUAV"
		Fra' Mauro's map of the world - the famous fifteenth-century document conserved in the Marciana Library - was the theme of a workshop held at the IUAV (Venice Architecture University) over the first three weeks of July.
		Starting with a historical analysis of the map, the course offered about thirty students the chance for some conceptual work, moving from the two-dimensional macro-space of cartography to the practical space of planning.
		The map documents what has been discovered, conquered, what is now familiar; but it is also a project: it constructs and projects possibilities onto what is still unknown.
	marciana.venezia.sbn.it /news6/eng/art8.html (236 words)

	Silk Road - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		It extended, via ports on the coasts of India and Sri Lanka, all the way to Roman-controlled ports in Egypt and the Nabataean territories on the northeastern coast of the Red Sea.
		Chinese maps such as the Kangnido and Islamic mapmaking seem to have influenced the emergence of the first practical world maps, such as those of De Virga or Fra Mauro.
		Ramusio, a contemporary, states that Fra Mauro's map is "an improved copy of the one brought from Cathay by Marco Polo".
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Silk_Road (4693 words)

	Reviews
		Roberto Borri's new foray into the world of old maps (he is the author of the definitive carto-bibliography of maps of the Italian peninsula) is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the cartography of Europe from earliest times, divided into five parts.
		Covering such a wide time span, and with so much of the volume given over to illustrations, the descriptive text accompanying the maps is rather short, but this is more than made up for the wealth and quality of the illustrations, the majority shown in full colour.
		With the wide ranging of illustrations incorporated, this is not merely a carto-bibliography of maps of Europe, but a larger and wider sumptuous visual foray through European mapping from the eighth to nineteenth century, and as such should - and deserves to - appeal to a much larger and broader audience interested in early maps.
	www.mapforum.com /15/15review.htm (321 words)

	Scierno: the Land of Smiles
		The mapmaker was Fra (Father) Mauro, a Venetian monk who created the map under commission from King Alfonso V of Portugal (1432-1481).
		The Fra Mauro map was made between 1457 and 1459.
		Fra Mauro died the following year while he was making a copy of the map for the Seigniory of Venice.
	www.nationmultimedia.com /2006/09/06/headlines/headlines_30012911.php (1016 words)

	Re: [MapHist] processes of medieval cartography- help
		This exhibition celebrates the earliest maps of Scandinavia, from the first map of the area in 1482, to the sumptuous maps of the major cartographers of the 17th century, to the detailed maps made by 19th century Scandinavians.
		The 43 maps comprising this section include the first printed map of Scandinavia (published in Ulm in 1482), maps of Scandinavia and Denmark from the first modern atlas (published by Abraham Ortelius in 1570), and rare world maps by Gastaldi (1546) and Rosaccio (a wall map first published in 1597).
		The second part is devoted to "Maps of Norway, 1602-1795" and "Sea Charts of Norway, 1585-1798." Among the 33 maps in this section are the first map showing Norway alone, the first map of Norway drawn and issued by a Norwegian cartographer, and a sea chart from the first official coastal survey of Norway.
	cartography.geo.uu.nl /maphist/2002/2002_04_(400KB).txt (13818 words)

	History of Cartography - Digital Projects
		The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress is contributing to the American Memory Project with a wide range of map images.
		The historical base map of land records has been scanned by the City of Philadelphia, Department of Records and three Philadelphia atlases (1860, 1895 and 1910) will be included in the GIS for exploring the history, culture, and architecture of the region.
		As the maps and field notebooks are held exclusively at Branner Library, they are a unique resource for the people of the state of California and across the county.
	www.maphistory.info /projects.html (4083 words)

	Latest News 2006 - History of Cartography (archive)
		The mid-15th century Fra Mauro map (not usually described as 'tattered') provided the collector Thavatchai Tangsirivanich with evidence that the early name for Siam (and apparently its capital) was Scierno [though the article points out that a variant of this was already in Hobson-Jobson's dictionary].
		Four rolled-up maps of Dover and Strafford County (1831-70), the earliest being a manuscript wall-map of the Cocheco cotton mill, have been restored and will be on display from 7 July to the end of August at the library in Dover, New Hampshire.
		The map, drawn about 1610 and supposedly sent by the Spanish ambassador in London to Philip II was 'discovered' in the Archivo General de Simancas in 1887 and has featured prominently in histories of cartography since.
	www.maphistory.info /newslatestarchive06.html (7037 words)

	FRA MAURO's World Map: with a commentary and translations of the inscriptions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		"Fra Mauro’s map of the world — a masterpiece of western cartography, composed around 1450 — has until now never been the subject of a modern study, despite its immense renown.
		The map has been reproduced and cited in hundreds of books, but the most recent full study was in 1806: Placido Zurla’s Il mappamondo di Fra Mauro.
		The project is the result of collaboration between historians and scholars belonging to two Venetian institutions, the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana — where the map is still preserved — and the Centro Interdisciplinare di Rilievo, Cartografia ed Elaborazione (CIRCE) of Venice's Iuav University.
	www.artbooks.com /titles/079/Item79274.htm (243 words)

	Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan: Nicolo de Conti (Glossary)
		Mauro's map of the world uses place-names, and sources for spices, that appear directly copied from Conti's interviews with Bracciolini.
		Fra Mauro continues in another passage again suggesting the continuity of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, the former believed to be completely surrounded by land up until that time:
		Fra Mauro's map shows junk-like vessels with high stern and square bow plying the Indian Ocean, along with details of what apparently is the island of Madagascar and the Cape of Good Hope.
	sambali.blogspot.com /2006/07/nicolo-de-conti-glossary.html (1671 words)

	Levenger Press - Peter Barber
		So as well as small practical maps, such as cycling and road maps, I've included grand maps intended for display, confidential maps meant for government, games, furniture and maps in what may seem to be strange formats.
		You may think it curious that such a map was included—but it is part and parcel of the real story of mapmaking.
		I'm very keen on Blome's map of the Holy Roman Empire of 1669 because it speaks to me directly: it is English, as I am by upbringing, but it shows the lands in Bohemia, Moravia and Austria from which my family originates, and Switzerland, where my wife comes from.
	www.levenger.com /press/LPFeatures_MapBk.asp (1142 words)

	[No title]
		Map that is characteristic of the underlying rock, fault lines, and subsurface structures is called:
		Map that illustrates only the habitable portion of the world known in Roman and Medieval times is:
		The map that depicts the world from Classical times to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern Geography is:
	www.expertrating.com /quizzes/World-Map-Quiz.asp (264 words)

	FMindex
		Questa pagina contiene strumenti e risorse che intendono favorire lo studio del mappamondo di Fra Mauro (ca.
		Fra Mauro alfabetico *Testo delle iscrizioni del mappamondo in ordine alfabetico / Text of the inscriptions in alphabetical order
		Fra Mauro numerico Corpus delle iscrizioni ordinate per tavola, con riferimento all'edizione 1956 / Inscriptions ordered by table referred to the edition of the map* published in 1956 by the Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Rome
	geoweb.venezia.sbn.it /geoweb/HSL/FraMauro/FraMauroIndex.html (97 words)

	Medieval World Maps: A Comparative Study
		The Anglo-Saxon or Cottonian World Map from Canterbury ca.
		Maps such as the Fra Mauro World Map [picture] closely mirror the contemporary charts and are relatively unadorned.
		All these Medieval World Maps may currently (1999) be examined at a major exhibition being staged at Hereford Cathedral:
	www.britannia.com /history/mapmundi.html (866 words)

	1421 theory - China-related Topics AA-AD - China-Related Topics
		Image:KangnidoMap.jpgthumb300pxThe Kangnido map (1402) describes the entirety of the Old World, from Europe and Africa in the west, to Korea and Japan in the east, with an oversized China in the middle.
		The Fra Mauro map (1459), which describes an Eastern expedition into the Atlantic: "About the year of Our Lord 1420 a ship, what is called an Indian junk (lit.
		Among his specific evidence are DNA studies showing "recent" DNA flow from China, maps which apparently show foreign lands before the Europeans discovered them, and a drawing of an armadillo in a book published in China in 1430, along with veritable mountains of circumstantial evidence.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/1421_theory (676 words)

	Chinese Columbus: Fact or Fiction? - All Empires
		Menzies attempts to rewrite history, citing a variety sources, including wrecked junks along the North American coast, the Fra Mauro map of 1459, verbal accounts of rice plantations on the Amazon, Chinese drawings of armadillos dating to 1430, and linguistic similarities between the Chinese and natives of Peru.
		The map, which Liu claims to be drawn in 1763 by Mo Yi Tong, has an inscription on one corner saying it imitates another map made in 1418.
		Although the map does not exactly imply that Zheng He’s men circumnavigated the globe between 1421 and 1423, Menzies fervently supports its authenticity.
	www.allempires.com /article/index.php?q=chinese_columbus (1529 words)

	Dorothy Dunnett - Edinburgh Gathering 2000
		Margaret Wilkes gave an illustrated talk on maps, which was very enlightening in showing just how poor the available maps and charts were for anyone undertaking long voyages - Nicholas and Lymond were truly venturing into the unknown on many of their trips.
		Even the "road maps" of the time were pretty useless from the point of view of navigation and told you little more than which order towns and cities would appear in on the journey.
		Amongst many pictures which I would have liked to be able to inspect for far longer was the Fra Mauro map which Nicholas discovered at Murano.
	www.dorothydunnett.co.uk /due2k.htm (2023 words)

	USGS Astrogeology: Planetary Map Listing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The green arrow indicates a digital version of the map is available.
		Geologic Map of the Near Side of the Moon
		Shaded Relief and Surface Markings Map and Shaded Relief Map of the Lunar Near Side
	astrogeology.usgs.gov /Projects/MapBook/featureNameSearch.jsp?id=69286 (159 words)

	Books about Maps, Cartography, and GIS
		The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas by Barbara E. Mundy
		Mapping Texas and the Gulf Coast: The Contributions of St. Denis, Olivan, and Le Maire by Jack Jackson
		Maps Are Territories: Science Is an Atlas: A Portfolio of Exhibits by David Turnbull
	home.att.net /~newbooks/mapbooks.html (3449 words)

	1421 - Evidence - The Europeans set sail with accurate maps that showed their destinations
		." This is the Cape drawn on Fra Mauro’s planisphere of 1459 (Fra Mauro was working for the Portuguese Government when making his planisphere).
		Thus Southern Africa appeared on Fra Mauro's map prepared for the Portuguese before the first European expedition reached the Cape.
		The ‘Dauphin’ map (1536) showing Australia was owned by the First Lord of the British Admiralty, Edward Harley.
	www.1421.tv /pages/evidence/content.asp?EvidenceID=11 (610 words)

	APRIL 1931 GAZETTE: THE STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY
		Portion of Africa from Fra Mauro's map illustrating Cadamosto's
		The voyage to Cape Blanco from Cape Bojador.
		the corridor is from an old map of New Netherlands; the
	www.library.yale.edu /gazette/105.html (102 words)

	Mauro, Fra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Il mappamundo di Fra Mauro a Cura di tullia Gasparrini Leporace.
		A world map reflecting mid-fifteenth century geographical knowledge, drawn in typical medieval format, but with south at the top.
		It has abundance of detail, some based on contemporary travels, but also reflecting traditional legend.
	www.bell.lib.umn.edu /rmaps/1460.html (88 words)

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