Saturday 3 January 2015

Map of Piri Reis Poster

Here's a great poster featuring a beautiful image from deep space


tagged with: cartography, Europe, discoverers, marine, boats, astronomy, astronomer, astrolabio, pirates, buccaneers, privateers, treasure, the island of the treasure

It is a fragment of a map developed by Admiral and Ottoman Cartographer Piri Reis in 1513. The map includes gorgeous drawings, accompanied of inscriptions that indicate important discoveries. One of them corresponds, almost with total certainty, the expedition of Pedro Álvares Cabral of 1500. One thinks that Cabral “discovered” Brazil when the winds removed it from their route, in a trip to the Eastern Indians.

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