Talk:Piri Reis

Good catch on the "other hand" thing, Andre. --Ed Poor

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Occult

According to a TV program I saw:

• the map displays the Andes before their discovery.
• The island of Marajo in the mouth of Amazon river doesn't appear. An old map?
• Some text says that Columbus discovered the land in the year x Anno Hegira. That would be 148x.

-- Error 00:30, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Corrected statement that this was the first map to show America to first Turkish map to show America. Many maps, both manuscript and printed, were made in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Poland, etc., between 1492 and 1513 that depicted America.

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Someone added an image of the map with the claim that it shows perfectly the coast of Antarctica. This is nonsense as it is clearly an extension of the coast of South America (if it isn't, why is the bottom half of South America missing?). I have removed that claim. I suggest that person read some of the links (especially the debunking one I added some time back). --Infradig (andrew) 02:17, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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The map is not centered on Cairo as claimed. A quote from Soucek : Soucek (1992:269) has reconstructed where the center of the map would have been: “By superimposing the existing fragment of the 1502 Cantino planisphere, it is possible to make a provisional reconstruction of the area covered by the remaining portion of Piri Re’is whole map. p. 270 “The size and extent of the whole chart shown there (14.6) have been tentatively extrapolated from the five compass circles on the fragment. The center of the circle on which these wind roses lie can be plotted roughly in the Sahara Desert, at the approximate latitude of the Tropic of Cancer.”

• S. Soucek. 1992. “Islamic Charting in the Mediterranean,” In J.B. Harley and D. Woodward, eds. Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies. Vol. 2, book 1, 263-272. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Itzcoatl 07:10, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Competing Wikipedia Entry

In case you aren't aware, there is a competing entry of sorts overlapping with this one at Piri Reis Map. Ideally, there should be discrete entries for Piri Reis the person and the Piri Reis map. My suggestion is that either 1) this page only include discussion of Piri Reis himself and not the map, or 2) there be only one page, entitled Piri Reis Map, that discusses both the person and the map. Comments? --Varenius 21:45, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The Piri Reis map article is about a single map. This article describes some of his other work. -- SEWilco (talk) 17:31, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Found america before you

Why are you telling that the map isn't the best of his time and only be made so good by satelite photo's. Isnt it to hard that A TURK better was in another rhing again than your kind. I now it's hard to accept but he found america before you and bring it on map. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.41.224.33 (talk) 21:28, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Read more of the linked articles. Reis' maps were based upon other maps, including ones from Spain and Portugal involving someone named Columbo/Columbus. -- SEWilco (talk) 17:31, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Beheaded?

At 90? Just incredible... never say no to the Sultan I guess, and he should have known better!