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« on: February 20, 2007, 10:13:39 pm »

Other maps

After having studied the Piri Reis map, Hapgood went on a systematic search through the libraries to see if there were other examples. He turned up a number that show similar longitudinal knowledge (the so-called portolani), and others that show the Antarctic in all kinds of detail, see the gallery below and click on the thumbnails. Some other maps are included to show that they got not better in time, possibly even worse, giving rise to the suggestion that the good ones stem from an accurate original, that got copied and copied, and thereby got worse.

     


A portolano of the Mediterranean.



One of the most famous portolani, the Dulcert, 1339.
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