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		It was the spread of the compass that assisted the creation of the portolan as a new type of nautical chart in the 13th century, and it was the growing role of improved instruments of celestial navigation, coupled with the different demands of the rapidly expanding oceanic voyages, that made it obsolete several centuries later.
		This did not happen overnight, for the portolan chart was used in the Atlantic in the 15 th century and spread over the world's oceans in the 16th, 6th, being the type adopted and given a new dimension by the earliest discoverers themselves, with the Portuguese far in the vanguard.
		In contrast to portolan texts, those of the isolarii focused on the topical and historical aspects of a given island and paid only marginal attention to navigational matters, for their purpose was not to help the mariner but to amuse and instruct the curious reader.
	coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~fisher/hst373/readings/soucek.html (6116 words)

	General Maps Title List
		[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc. Dedicated to Hieronymus Ruffault, Abbot of St. Vaast].
		Between 1536 and 1564 an enterprising Genoese chartmaker, Battista Agnese, produced in Venice a number of remarkably accurate and beautifully decorated nautical or "portolan" atlases on vellum for merchant princes and ranking officials.
		The portolan atlas containing this world map was drawn in Venice in 1543-44.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/gmdhtml/gnrlagn.html (480 words)

	map of Drachenwald
		Portolan charts were practical tools made for the use of sailors who sailed "great waters." As Tony Campbell, Map Librarian of the British Map Library put it so well: "The medieval mappaemundi (world maps in the Christian tradition) are the cosmographies of thinking landsmen.
		Along the edge of the portolan charts are often holes which could be used to attach the chart to a wooden roller, around which the chart was to be wrapped, then tied with a thong for carrying, probably in a protective container, on board ship.
		Directions are indicated on the portolan charts by this network of lines joined on the points dividing the circle that is a basic element of the portolan chart.
	www.kolumbus.fi /rauno.huikari/Portolanchart.htm (947 words)

	Michael of Rhodes \| Navigation
		During the Middle Ages, this kind of knowledge was written down in texts known as portolans (not to be confused with portolan charts, or maps).
		It consists of portolans for coasts from Venice to Constantinople and Tana, for the coast of the Adriatic, and for the coasts and islands from Greece to Cyprus.
		These portolans were written by someone other than Michael, as the different penmanship, ink, and pagination makes evident, after Michael's death, although there is no way to determine exactly when.
	brunelleschi.imss.fi.it /michaelofrhodes/navigate_portolans.html (577 words)

	Portolan Charts
		In the thirteenth century a new type of chart, the portolan chart emerged.
		Portolan charts were made to get seafarers from home to another place and back again safely.
		Though not strictly a portolan the stamp shows a portion of an anonymous Portuguese map from about 1630.
	sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/portolan.htm (133 words)

	Portolan Charts Intro - Bell Library: Maps and Mapmakers
		For starters, the word "portolan" derives from the word "portolani" which is translated into English as "pilots" or as "rutters." These texts list places, with distances and directions to reach them.
		The "chart" element of "portolan chart" makes it clear that what is being referred to is a map complete in itself, not a map illuminating a text.
		On portolan charts prior to 1500, distance, direction, and coastal features were provided for navigators, with information to enable them to calculate and measure the progress and direction of their vessels during a voyage; mariners still had to rely on experience and common sense, however.
	www.bell.lib.umn.edu /map/PORTO/INTRO/intro2.html (476 words)

	The Portolan Atlas of Battista Agnese Finn's Fine Books Facsimile Book Catalogue
		he Portolan Atlas of Battista Agnese is one of the most fascinating navigational charts of the 16th century because of the precision, attention to detail and the high artistic value of its execution.
		We know of 80 to 100 navigational charts (portolans) from his pen, of which the Atlas of 1546 is the finest example.
		The research edition of Battista Agnese´s Portolan Atlas of 1546 comprises 18 charts in the original format on individual facsimile leaves which are kept in a case with the commentary (German or English).
	www.finns-books.com /agnese.htm (574 words)

	BibliOdyssey: The Portolan Atlas
		A portolan or nautical atlas (or chart, manuscript or map) refers to an early modern European rendering, usually on vellum, in which complete coasts, ports and waterways were depicted together with characteristic direction lines from the thirty-two points of the compass.
		The most famous of these is the Portolan Atlas of Battista Agnese of which about 70 copies are known to still exist.
		It was state of the art for its time with the latest explorations and discoveries and the ocean maps could be overlapped for comparison and to produce an accurate map of the world.
	bibliodyssey.blogspot.com /2006/07/portolan-atlas.html (462 words)

	Item 96
		Portolan atlas of five charts of the European and African Coasts of the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
		The portolan chart is of the same tradition as the isolario, and many of the portolan atlases made by the Oliva family and other chart makers of the period include an isolario at the end.
		Portolan charts were used by mariners well into the seventeenth century, but there was also a demand for richly decorated versions among the enlightened wealthy.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/treasures/html/96.html (144 words)

	Kythera-Family.net - for the world-wide Kytherian community
		This fascinating problem seems to regain a new interest thanks to the new digital technologies (informatics and infographics), which are properly designed and suitable for the transformation of old maps in raster-form and for their digital reset and analysis.
		If this condition is satisfied, in the context of optimality, it means that the relevant test-projection assigned to the old map is most probably the ‘masked’ projection used by the mapmaker, empirically, intuitively or even unconsciously in the case of copying from older maps.
		The optimal fitting of all portolan maps to the adopted test projection is obviously of ‘global’ character.
	www.kythera-family.net /index.php?nav=5-17&hits=20&did=11206 (2411 words)

	The Newberry Library: Smith Center Publications
		By the end of the fifteenth century, portolan charts were a highly developed aid to navigation.
		During the middle of the sixteenth century, numerous cartographic centers emerged to meet the demand for new maps, not only to reflect new discoveries but also to illustrate the already-known world in light of refined knowledge and new methods of projection.
		A spectacular and rare map in the late portolan tradition is illustrated in the fourth slide.
	www.newberry.org /smith/slidesets/ss09.html (5085 words)

	The PORTOLAN GROUP: advocates for the school, not for outsourcing
		he Portolan Group, Inc. is a company that provides consulting to public and private schools in a variety of support services departments (custodial, maintenance, grounds, school lunch).
		No employee of The Portolan Group, Inc. is compensated in any manner by any outsourcing company based on the outcomes or recommendations of our studies.
		ercator's World, the leading map history periodical, defines a portolan as “a pilot book or set of sailing directions, which in map form was called a portolan chart” (vol 1 number 4, 1996 p.
	www.portolangroup.com /summary.html (396 words)

	Mappa.Mundi Magazine - Locus - Portolon
		A big image of a portolan chart: note the compass roses and bearings present in the map.
		Thus, on a portolan chart seaside cities look like stars, with lines radiating from them to show the compass headings for various destinations.
		With a compass and a portolan chart, a navigator could leave port going in a specific direction, stay on that course, and arrive at land reasonably near his intended destination.
	www.mundi.net /locus/locus_003 (344 words)

	Üdvözöljük a Dunaferr Rt. honlapján!
		DUNAFERR Portolan Forwarding Ltd. was established in 1992.
		Portolan Ltd. performs the practical execution of theory.
		We have to provide continuance both on the ground and in water equally in favour of the flow of goods, so that going through the system the secure profit should be promoted in trade.
	www.dunaferr.hu /english/04-erdekeltsegek/portolan.htm (122 words)

	Beta Portolan - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
		Beta Portolan is a star which is in or near Federation space, primary of the Beta Portolan system.
		Beta Portolan was mentioned as a small note on a very large star chart graphic created for TNG:"Conspiracy." It was the image behind the chair in the room where Dexter Remmick was killed.
		It appears to be located within an outlined block, which may indicate that it was surrounded or was even a part of Federation territory at the time.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Beta_Portolan (194 words)

	lawyer Portolan - lawyer-report.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A portolan is an early modern European navigation chart, dating from the thirteenth century or later, in manuscript, usually with rhumb lines, shorelines and place names.
		The portolan combined the exact notations of the text of the periplus or pilot book with the decorative illustrations of the conceptual T and O map but on the whole it offered a realistic depiction of the shore and was meant for practical use by a mariner of the period.
		The portolan did not take into account the curvature of the earth, so it was a misleading document for crossing an ocean.
	www.lawyer-report.com /Portolan (357 words)

	Portolan - Vikipedi
		Pusula ve portolan haritasıyla denizciler, kıyıları izlemek zorunda kalmadan rota çizgileri üzerinden seyrederek gideceklere yere varabilirlerdi.
		Albino de Canepa'nın 1489 yapımı bir doğu Akdeniz portolanı
		Battista Agnese'nin 1544 yapımı bir doğu Akdeniz portolanı
	tr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portolan (182 words)

	World Mysteries - Strange Artifacts, Catalan Atlas
		The portolan chart drafted in 1339 by Angelino Dulcert (BNF, Res Ge B 696), was the first map known for certain to have been produced in Palma, on Majorca.
		The Catalan Atlas, dated 1375 and attributed to Cresques Abraham, presents important similarities with Dulcert's portolan chart in the drawing of its occidental portion, augmented with a great number of explanatory legends.
		It reproduces the geographical framework of Dulcert's portolan chart, the rich array of paintings and explanatory legends of the Catalan Atlas, and it reflects the same fascination with African gold and knowledge of the overland routes leading to it.
	www.world-mysteries.com /sar_10.htm (1240 words)

	Beta Portolan - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
		Beta Portolan is a star which is in or near Federation space, primary of the Beta Portolan system.
		Beta Portolan was mentioned as a small note on a very large star chart graphic created for TNG:"Conspiracy." It was the image behind the chair in the room where Dexter Remmick was killed.
		It appears to be located within an outlined block, which may indicate that it was surrounded or was even a part of Federation territory at the time.
	www.memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Beta_Portolan (182 words)

	Dunaújváros Online - Hírek - Dunaújváros Online
		A Portolan, amely 1992-ben alakult, évről évre növelte forgalmát, 2000-ben 15 milliárd, az idén pedig már 18 milliárd a cég várható árbevétele.
		A Portolan a Dunaferr kebelén belül kezdte meg tevékenységét, de ma már forgalmának csupán 60 százaléka kötődik az acéliparhoz, 40 százalékát külső megbízások adják.
		A világ legnagyobb kikötőjének, Rotterdamnak a Portolan a legnagyobb magyar szállítmányozási partnere, a rijekai kikötőnek a legnagyobb üzletfele.
	www.dunaujvaros.com /tallozo/hirek/011020_dunaferr.htm (507 words)

	Mapping New Worlds, World Page 3
		At the same time that scholars were consulting maps based on the works of ancient writers, mariners in Europe had developed a tradition of map-making based upon pilots' books of sailing directions, known as portolani.
		Portolan charts date from the thirteenth century, and began to appear at the same time the magnetic compass was adopted as a standard navigational tool.
		The characteristic features of portolan charts were detailed drawings of shore lines and the presence of one or more compass roses from which radiated directional lines, known as rhumb lines.
	www.brynmawr.edu /library/exhibits/maps/world3.shtml (164 words)

	The Ultimate Portolan chart - American History Information Guide and Reference
		A portolan is an early modern European navigation chart, dating from the fourteenth century or later, in manuscript, usually with rhumb lines, shorelines and place names.
		The portolan combined the exact notations of the periplus with the decorative illustrations of the conceptual T and O map but on the whole it offered a realistic depiction of the shore and was meant for practical use by a mariner of the period.
		The oldest portolan which has survived to our era dates from 1296.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Portolan_chart (144 words)

	Portolan Charts
		In the thirteenth century a new type of chart, the portolan chart emerged.
		Portolan charts were made to get seafarers from home to another place and back again safely.
		Though not strictly a portolan the stamp shows a portion of an anonymous Portuguese map from about 1630.
	www.danstopicals.com /portolan.htm (141 words)

	Experience and Experiment in Early Modern Europe -- Mapping a New World
		The detailed outlines of the coast—and the magnetic rhumb lines that cover the entire map—are characteristic of the portolan sea charts used by sailors since the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
		But unlike more narrowly focused portolan charts, this map also exhibits elements of the mappaemundi, such as information about inland geopolitics that was of no immediate use to the sailor.
		The merging of the concern for detailed accuracy derived from the portolan charts and the more iconic nature of the mappaemundi exemplify the dynamic relationship between changing views of the world and the mutable conventions of representation.
	www.folger.edu /html/folger_institute/experience/disciplining_brokaw.htm (444 words)

	Submission of articles to The Portolan
		The Portolan, while the journal of the Washington Map Society, does not focus only on Washington, DC and the surrounding region.
		Just as our membership is very scattered, in many US states and numerous foreign countries, the articles published cover a wide range of topics related to map history, map collecting and cartography.
		Still others are contributed by scholars or researchers from throughout the world who wish to present their writing to a worldwide audience of map aficionados, academics and national and university libraries.
	home.earthlink.net /~docktor/portolan_submit.htm (507 words)

	UNBF Libraries - Collections - Eileen Wallace Children's Literature Collection - Portolan
		Portolan is an annotated bibliography of Atlantic Canadian books for children and young adults.
		Portolan CLC, containing Atlantic Canadian children's literature held by the Eileen Wallace Children's Literature Collection in the Harriet Irving Library at UNB.
		All records in Portolan CLC have been annotated, have been assigned descriptors and have been labelled with age range and jurisdictional information.
	www.lib.unb.ca /collections/clc/portolan/about.html (1105 words)

	Who owns Tweeter - Steve Syre — Business Blog — Financial Insight — Boston.com
		Portolan Capital Management of Boston had been Tweeter's No. 7 stockholder with 624,793 shares, which represents a 2.4 percent interest in the company.
		Portolan had trimmed its Tweeter holdings during the first quarter, selling 136,547 shares.
		I don't know Portolan, but Bloomberg News describes the firm's chief investment officer, George McCabe, as a former research analyst at the office of Peter Lynch and the Lynch Foundation.
	www.boston.com /business/blog/bostoncap/2007/06/who_owns_tweete.html (449 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- S.D. schools being shorted on maintenance, study says
		Despite such objections, the school board voted 3-2 this month to spend an additional $148,000 to extend the contract of The Portolan Group, the consulting firm, to help with the reorganization.
		Portolan's visits to schools found dirty cafeterias and kitchens, and floors that needed deep cleaning to remove wax build-up.
		Portolan suggests eliminating charging schools for services, and centralizing the budget and management of custodial services, among other changes.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/education/20070226-9999-1m26upkeep.html (742 words)

	Pirates of the Burning Sea : Developer Journal #7 - Pirates of the Burning Sea for PC at MMORPG.COM
		A Historic Cartographer is the name given to the very few of us in the industry that specializes in the creation of researched maps that represent a specific location at a particular point in time (mine specialization being 15th through 18th centuries).
		The term "Portolan" is used to identify hand-made maps that are observed as having a specific set of characteristics used by early Cartographers (Cartouche, Scale, Windrose, Rhumblines, and Misc uses of Hand-Created Art in the Map itself).
		A "Portolan Artist" is someone who follows the same design principles and technique as early Cartographers.
	www.mmorpg.com /gamelist.cfm/gameId/68/setView/features/loadFeature/448 (1246 words)

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