portolan chart
1Portolan chart — A portolan (derived from the Latin word portus , port) is an early modern European navigation chart, dating from the thirteenth century or later, in manuscript, usually with rhumb lines, shorelines and place names.The portolan combined the exact… …
2portolan chart — also called Harbour finding Chart, Compass Chart, or Rhumb Chart, navigational chart of the European Middle Ages (1300–1500). The earliest dated navigational chart extant was produced at Genoa by Petrus Vesconte in 1311 and is said to… …
3portolan — noun an early chart of European navigable waters …
4Nautical chart — A nautical chart is a graphic representation of a maritime area and adjacent coastal regions. Depending on the scale of the chart, it may show depths of water and heights of land (topographic map), natural features of the seabed, details of the… …
5Diogo Homem — Portolan chart of the Mediterranean, 1563. Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence Diogo Homem (1521–1576) was a Portuguese cartographer, son of Lopo Homem and member of a family of cartographers. Due to a crime of murder, in which he was connivent, he… …
6Cornaro Atlas — Summary map (p.36) of the Cornaro Atlas The Cornaro Atlas (Egerton MS 73) is an extensive Venetian collection (c.1489) of nautical charts and tracts, currently held by the British Library. Contents …
7Abraham Cresques — A part of the Catalan Atlas by Cresques Abraham and his son Jehuda Cresques Abraham Cresques (died 1387), whose real name was probably Cresques Abraham, was a 14th century Jewish cartographer from Palma, Majorca (then part of the Crown of Aragon) …
8Majorcan cartographic school — A part of the Catalan Atlas that was created by Majorca s cartographer Abraham Cresques The Majorcan cartographic school (sometimes called the Catalan school) is the term coined by historians to refer to the collection of cartographers,… …
9Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano — Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano, known as the Pizzigani brothers, were 14th C. Venetian cartographers. Their surname is sometimes given as Pizigano (only one z ) in older sources. Contents 1 1367 Chart 2 Other charts 3 References 4 …
10map — mappable, adj. mapper, n. /map/, n., v., mapped, mapping. n. 1. a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships… …
