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Edward Luther Stevenson

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... brought to him their charts, and showed to him that the port was not far distant. Theobald Fischer has advanced the theory that portolan charts have a Byzantine origin, and Fiorini holds that Italian navigators, not long after 1000 A. D., learned from the Greeks of Constantinople how to make and how to use charts which were founded on drawings and measurements, and that in succeeding years they gradually improved them. Again the fact confronts us that no portolan chart of Byzantine or Greek origin is known, nor is the evidence of such eastern influence traceable in existing charts. The first thousand years and more of the Christian era have left us none of the sailors' charts which may have been employed during those centuries. Ptolemy alone of the ancient writers alludes to the charts of seamen, and one might conclude from his references that such as he had in mind were not unlike the portolan charts which we have here under consideration. But all these too are lost. As there appears to be a relationship existing between the ancient periplus, the Italian portolan, and the portolan chart of the period of discovery, --which chart at first was doubtless regarded as a very useful addition to the portolan, coming in time to supplant it as the knowledge of seamanship expanded, --a more extended reference to the character of the periplus and of the portolan will fittingly introduce us to the portolan chart. The Greeks used the word nspinXovs to designate a course or harbor book, literally a sailing around, a circumnavigation. It was not applied to a sea chart or to a collection of sea charts. The Italian word portolano, while not precisely synonymous, has a meaning strikingly similar to this Greek word, as has also the English word rutter, the.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Portolan Charts; With a Descriptive List of Those Belonging to the Hispanic Society of America. To get started finding Portolan Charts; With a Descriptive List of Those Belonging to the Hispanic Society of America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... brought to him their charts, and showed to him that the port was not far distant. Theobald Fischer has advanced the theory that portolan charts have a Byzantine origin, and Fiorini holds that Italian navigators, not long after 1000 A. D., learned from the Greeks of Constantinople how to make and how to use charts which were founded on drawings and measurements, and that in succeeding years they gradually improved them. Again the fact confronts us that no portolan chart of Byzantine or Greek origin is known, nor is the evidence of such eastern influence traceable in existing charts. The first thousand years and more of the Christian era have left us none of the sailors' charts which may have been employed during those centuries. Ptolemy alone of the ancient writers alludes to the charts of seamen, and one might conclude from his references that such as he had in mind were not unlike the portolan charts which we have here under consideration. But all these too are lost. As there appears to be a relationship existing between the ancient periplus, the Italian portolan, and the portolan chart of the period of discovery, --which chart at first was doubtless regarded as a very useful addition to the portolan, coming in time to supplant it as the knowledge of seamanship expanded, --a more extended reference to the character of the periplus and of the portolan will fittingly introduce us to the portolan chart. The Greeks used the word nspinXovs to designate a course or harbor book, literally a sailing around, a circumnavigation. It was not applied to a sea chart or to a collection of sea charts. The Italian word portolano, while not precisely synonymous, has a meaning strikingly similar to this Greek word, as has also the English word rutter, the.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Portolan Charts; With a Descriptive List of Those Belonging to the Hispanic Society of America. To get started finding Portolan Charts; With a Descriptive List of Those Belonging to the Hispanic Society of America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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