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    Portolan charts are nautical charts, first made in the 13th century in the Mediterranean basin and later expanded to include other regions. The word portolan...
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    Aeronautical chart Automatic label placement Admiralty chart Bathymetric chart European Atlas of the Seas Nautical star Navigation room Portolan chart Dutch...
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    great, mighty'. Nautical charts identified an island called "Bracile" west of Ireland in the Atlantic Ocean in a portolan chart by Angelino Dulcert circa...
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    copy of an otherwise lost map by Christopher Columbus. The map is a portolan chart with compass roses and a windrose network for navigation, rather than...
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    15th-century Venetian cartographer. He is the author of a famous 1424 portolan chart, the first known to depict the phantom islands of the purported Antillia...
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    school. The Carta Pisana portolan chart, made at the end of the 13th century (1275–1300), is the oldest surviving nautical chart (that is, not simply a...
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    directions forming a web-like mesh. They were featured on portolan charts and other early nautical charts used in the medieval age and age of exploration in...
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    rectangular island in the 1424 portolan chart of Zuane Pizzigano. Thereafter, it routinely appeared in most nautical charts of the 15th century. After 1492...
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    eight half-winds and red for the sixteen quarter-winds. The average portolan chart had sixteen such roses (or confluence of lines), spaced out equally...
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    chart Flag over Varna on Guillem Soler's Portolan chart (c.1385) Approximate replica of Soler's portolan chart Flag of Bulgaria on Battista Beccario's...
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    Genoese cartographer and geographer. A pioneer of the field of the portolan chart, he influenced Italian and Catalan mapmaking throughout the fourteenth...
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    accurately-drawn portolan charts, starting with the 1367 chart of Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano and carried on in the 1375 Catalan Atlas, the 1413 chart of the...
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  • of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311) Angelino Dulcert (14th century), author of the earliest known Majorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean...
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  • notable 14th-century portolan charts, the "Dalorto" chart of 1325 and the "Dulcert" chart of 1339. The latter is the first portolan known to have been produced...
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    map is a portolan chart with compass roses from which lines of bearing radiate. Designed for navigation via dead reckoning, portolan charts use a windrose...
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    Mecia de Viladestes (category Nautical charts)
    converted to Christianity around this time. He is mostly known for his 1413 portolan chart which shows the N.E Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Black...
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    Aragon, to make a set of nautical charts which would go beyond the normal geographic range of contemporary portolan charts to cover the East and the West...
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    surviving nautical chart (that is, not simply a map but a document showing accurate navigational directions). It is a portolan chart, showing a detailed...
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    cartographer, corsair, and captain. He compiled charts and notes from his career at sea into the most detailed portolan atlas in existence. The Kitab-ı Bahriye...
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    this 1527 map was destroyed during World War II. There are numerous portolan charts, atlases and at least two other world maps made by Vesconte Maggiolo:...
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    incomparabilis". Two copies of maps by Fra Mauro are known to survive. One is a portolan chart in the Vatican Library, (Codice Borgiano V) published by Roberto Almagià...
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  • handbooks, hence the term portolan charts. The wealth of detail contained in portolano handbooks is reflected in the portolan charts, stunningly accurate even...
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  • flag as shown on some portolan charts The Byzantine imperial ensign of the 14th century according to Pietro Vesconte's portolan chart. The flag of Salonica...
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    Portolan of Angelo Freducci is a portolan chart by Angelo Freducci from 1554. The portolan belonged to the library of the Zamoyski family. After the Warsaw...
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  • Pizzigani brothers are principally known for the construction of a portolan chart, signed and dated 1367, currently held by the Biblioteca Palatina of...
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    according to the portolan-chart model ). The construction of the rhumb line system in the Cantino planisphere uses two circles (some charts use only one,...
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    traditional mappae mundi but contain elements from other sources, including Portolan charts and maps associated with Ptolemy's Geography are sometimes considered...
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  • resulted in the defining and mapping the borders between the two states. Portolan charts, which were used since the 13th century developed the technique of...
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    Portolan of Antonio Millo is a portolan chart by Antonio Millo from 1583. The portolan belonged to the library of the Zamoyski family. During the Warsaw...
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    not provided]. Manuscript portolan atlas of the world; Newberry Library Ayer MS map 13. sp. anon. (c. 1560). [Portolan chart of the Caribbean and Americas]...
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