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Portolan charts are nautical charts, first made in the 13th century in the Mediterranean basin and later expanded to include other regions. The word portolan...

notable 14th-century portolan charts, the "Dalorto" chart of 1325 and the "Dulcert" chart of 1339. The latter is the first portolan known to have been produced...

partial copy of an otherwise lost map by Christopher Columbus. The map is a portolan chart with compass roses and a windrose network for navigation, rather...

handbooks, hence the term portolan charts. The wealth of detail contained in portolano handbooks is reflected in the portolan charts, stunningly accurate...

portolan chart by Angelino Dulcert. It also appeared on the Catalan Atlas, in 1375. One of the earliest appearances was on the Rex Tholomeus portolan...

The Pizzigani brothers are principally known for the construction of a portolan chart, signed and dated 1367, currently held by the Biblioteca Palatina...

The map is a portolan chart with compass roses from which lines of bearing radiate. Designed for navigation via dead reckoning, portolan charts use a...

Medici Atlas (Laurentian Gaddiano portolan). This town ("Isingan") is fantastically depicted in the 1413 portolan map of Majorcan cartographer Mecia...

The Weimar map is an anonymous 15th-century Italian portolan chart, held by the Grand Ducal Library of Weimar. Although frequently dated as 1424, most...

its first explicit appearance as a large rectangular island in the 1424 portolan chart of Zuane Pizzigano. Thereafter, it routinely appeared in most nautical...

Claude Portolan (born 16 December 1960) is a French former international rugby union player. A product of hometown club SA Auterive, Portolan was a prop...

investigations of map projections and the appearance of portolano and then portolan charts for plying the European trade routes were rare innovations of the...

the Washington Map Society”, Portolan, No 49, Winter 2000-01, pp.18 Lourie, I., “The Atlases of A. J. Johnson”, Portolan, No 49, Winter 2000-01, pp.7-17...

the royal workshops. Reinel was the author of one of the oldest signed Portolan charts, tentatively dated about 1485. This nautical chart depicts the western...

activity spans from 1502 to 1533. Pilestrina is known for his work on portolan charts, and he was active with the Majorcan cartographic school. He created...

incomparabilis". Two copies of maps by Fra Mauro are known to survive. One is a portolan chart in the Vatican Library, (Codice Borgiano V) published by Roberto...

[scale not provided]. Manuscript portolan atlas of the world; Newberry Library Ayer MS map 13. sp. anon. (c. 1560). [Portolan chart of the Caribbean and Americas]...

Globe: Journal of the Australian Map Circle, No. 62, 2009, pp. 1–50. Robert J. King, "Regio Patalis: Australia on the map in 1531?", The Portolan, Issue...

lines on portolans when portolans were in use, as well as always applicable to straight lines on Mercator charts. For short distances portolan "rhumbs"...

equirectangular projection instead. In the 13th century, the earliest extant portolan charts of the Mediterranean sea, which are generally not believed to be...