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The Topkapı Palace where the map was discovered, viewed from the Bosporus. Much of Piri Reis's biography is known only from his cartographic works, including his two world maps and the Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Maritime Matters) [5] completed in 1521. [6]
Civil engineer Arlington Mallery, professor Charles Hapgood, and Hapgood's students developed the hypothesis that the 1513 world map contained cartographic information, notably from an ice-free Antarctic coast, that exceeded the map-making abilities of the sixteenth century. In his 1966 book Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, Hapgood claims islands ...
The Piri Reis map is a famous world map created by 16th-century Ottoman Turkish admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. The surviving third of the map shows part of the western coasts of Europe and North Africa with reasonable accuracy, and the coast of Brazil is also easily recognizable.
The maps use standard symbols like dots for shallow water and crosses for rocks. [17] Compared to inscriptions on contemporary maps, the book is highly personal and anecdotal. [17] The details in a portolan chart were limited by the space available on the map. Piri Reis says this is why he used separate maps and prose descriptions. [3]
The Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis crafted maps and books of navigation, including his first world map (1513) which is one of the oldest surviving maps of America and possibly the oldest surviving map of Antarctica. The first world map (1513) and second world map (1528) of Piri Reis are today preserved at the Library of Topkapı ...
16th-century establishments in Antarctica (1 C) 0–9. 1530s in Antarctica (2 C) Y. Years of the 16th century in Antarctica (1 C) This page was last edited on 25 ...
16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; Pages in category "16th century in Istanbul" ... 21st; Pages in category "16th century in Istanbul" The following 5 pages are in ...
Istanbul became one of the world's most important Jewish centers in the 16th and 17th century. [213] Romaniote and Ashkenazi communities existed in Istanbul before the conquest of Istanbul, but it was the arrival of Sephardic Jews that ushered a period of cultural flourishing.