Echoes of Portuguese Navigation in the Kitab-i Bahriye by Piri Reis
The world map drawn by Piri Reis in 1513, of which only the Atlantic fragment kept in Istanbul is known, is justly famous. Its surprising modernity is fully explained by the use of Iberian sources, resulting from nearly a century of exploration of both sides of the Atlantic by Portuguese and Spanish...
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| Language: | Catalan |
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Universitat de Barcelona
2013-10-01
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| Series: | Abriu: Estudos de Textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal |
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| Online Access: | http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Abriu/article/view/8042 |