Carta marina

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Jerry's guests include Zakiya Suwel, who's an English broadcaster and writer on Finding Albion, Yosh Schmidt, who's the head of maps at the Zurich Central Library, Pat Seed, a U.S. historian on Ptolemy's World Map, John Romero, who's a legendary video game producer on The Doom Game Creator, Elif Sharak, a well-known Turkish-British novelist, and Chet Van Duser, historian who will tell you about Martin Waldseemuller's Carta Marina of 1645.

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What makes this more striking is the mixture of languages in the 1513 map.

the point of florida being marked with a portuguese name si do fim di abril cape st bonaventura with an italian name and the rest in spanish chiefly with a few in latin it appears very probable that the Carta Marina was Vespucci's own map.

As already pointed out, a mistake made in the text of Vespucci by the Florentine printer is singularly repeated in the New World Chart which forms portion of all the Ptolemy maps of 1507-8, 1513, designed in 1507, 1522, 1525, 1535, in regard to Bahia.

this port was discovered by vespucci and his fellows on november first fifteen o one but he does not mention it by name in the narrative of his third voyage merely allowing it to appear in the account of his fourth voyage that the port which they had discovered in the preceding expedition and named badia di tucci was the appointed rendezvous for the vessels in case of separation on the map as in vol simulus translation of the lettera the italian typographical error badia is turned into a latin one abatia omnium sanctorum of course this might have simply arisen from the circumstance that the editors of ptolemy had before them in fifteen o seven the printed lettera with its blunder of badia for but it is evident that only a practical and experienced navigator had constructed the chart which tacitly corrects and supplements the defective statements of vespucci showing that his specifications of courses of sailing chiefly refer to initial and not to continuous movements we have in any case a clear case of connection between vespucci and the so-called admiral's map usually assigned to columbus a further evidence appears on the text of the editorial observations in the ptolemy of fifteen thirteen for the originator of the map is there referred to as an admiral of ferdinand king of portugal this has been considered an error of oversight not for manuel king of portugal but for ferdinand king of spain and to refer to columbus in accordance with the inscription in the same map on the south american continent hec terra inventa est per columbum januemsem ex mandato regis castel but it is probably an error only in the king's name in fifteen o four when vespucci probably drew the chart which was used for the ptolemies he could be properly styled an admiral or captain in the service of the king of portugal notwithstanding that his first and most important voyage was made as a subordinate officer astronomer or hydrographer in the service of spain second voyage also made in the spanish service in a fleet of three ships under the command of alonso de jorreda with juan de la cosa and amerigo vespucci as pilots fourteen ninety nine may sixteenth departure from cadiz reached Fogo, one of the Cape Verde Islands.