Historic Maritime Maps 120 illustrations
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Historic Maritime Maps 120 illustrations - Donald Wigal
Chronology
About 981:
The Viking, Eric the Red, discovers Greenland.
About 1000:
Leif Ericsson, nephew of Eric the Red, discovers Vinland, later to be known as North America.
1271-95:
Journeys of the Venetian, Marco Polo, in China.
1434:
Gil Eanes, from Portugal, crosses Cape Bojador (The North West Coast of Africa, just south of the Canary Islands).
1427:
The Portuguese discover the Azores.
1489:
Bartholomeu Dias, from Portugal, becomes the first European to cross the Cape of Good Hope successfully.
1492:
Christopher Columbus, from Spain, discovers America.
1497:
Jean Cabot, from Italy, lands on the coast of North America, in a place that will be later called the New Land.
1497:
Vasco da Gama, from Portugal, returns to India by sea, passing by the Cape of Good Hope.
1513:
(17th September) Vasco de Balboa, from Spain, becomes the first European to see the Pacific Ocean while leaving America.
1520-22:
Fernand de Magellan, from Portugal, crosses through, what will later be known as the Straits of Magellan and carries out the first circumnavigation of the world.
1535:
(10th August, St Lawrence Day) Jacques Cartier, from France, reaches Canada.
1610-11:
Henry Hudson, from England, while searching for the North West passage toward the Pacific Ocean discovers Hudson's Bay.
1642:
Abel Janszoon Tamsan, from Holland, famous for the discovery of the Island of Tasmania, discovers New Zealand, Tonga and the Islands of Fiji.
1728:
Vetus Bering, from Denmark, crosses the Strait that separates the countries, later named Eastern Siberia and Alaska.
1768-71, 1772-73 and 1776-79:
James Cook, from England, explores the Islands of the Southern Oceans three times.
1829-33:
John Ross, from England, and his nephew James discover the magnetic North Pole on the Island of Somerset.
1820:
The American, Nathaniel Palmer, becomes the first European to have seen the Antarctic.
1838:
The American, Charles Wilkes, discovers Wilkes Land.
1886:
The American, Robert Peary, explores the ice sheet of Greenland.
1906:
Roald Amundsen, from Norway, becomes the first man to reach the South Pole.
1908:
The American, Vilhjalmur Stefansson explores the Canadian Arctic.
1909:
The American, Matthew Henson, plants the American flag near the North Pole.
1914:
The American, Robert Bartlett, reaches Siberia.
1956:
Final expedition of the American Richard Byrd in the Arctic.
The Artist’s Studio
Johannes Vermeer van Delft (1632-1675), c. 1665. Oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Maps, even those dating from centuries ago, constantly influence our daily lives. They are one of the things which are part of our daily environment. Throughout history, besides having a utilitarian function, every single map symbolizes the period of time in which it was created. We are often reminded of the romance of antique maritime maps as we see them displayed in museums, or reproductions of them framed on the walls of private houses or institutions. In a Vermeer painting a map may be seen telling a story-within-a-story. In plays and films maps typically set the period.
In fiction they may be called on to remind the reader of a world beyond the story’s setting (in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, for example). Each map is, therefore, a priceless snapshot in the on-going album of humankind. This is especially true with antique maps where we can see the world through the eyes of our forebears.
While the map maker’s vision might later prove to be inadequate, or even incorrect, the unique truth is that his map expresses a story that might not be revealed in any other way. It may well be said that each map maker has effectively traveled in his mind vicariously not only to the envisioned places, but also to the future.
One such visionary monk was the 15th century map maker, Fra Mauro. He was certainly responsible for bringing to light the work of several other map makers. In doing so he helped make the transition from the Dark Ages to the beginning of the modern era (c. 1450). Mauro was part of the generation that was at work during the very focus of these significant times, over thirty years before the famous voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World in 1492.
Mauro probably went largely unnoticed in his monastery on an island within the Laguna Veneta (the lagoon that surrounds Venice). But his new map was destined to demand attention. It was large and round – which was unusual – almost two metres (six feet) in diameter, yet still very definitely a map and not a global representation. Most of all, he no longer showed Jerusalem as the center of the world.
For the Asian part of the map Mauro took his data from the writings of Marco Polo. The rest was based on Ptolemy, or his own contemporary sea-faring charts. Mauro’s extraordinary work was completed in 1459.
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