Usuari:Mcapdevila/Porto/Portolanero
I`m specialist in medieval portolan charts, a still unsolved mystery of science. I hope to find on Wikipedia people with similar interest or with usefule information.
1. What is unsolved about portolans?
The Problem of the Portolan Charts
2. With focus on cartometric: The History of Portolan Research
3. Some info on oldest chart: Carte Pisane
4. The portolans of the North and the relation to the southern portolans: "Caerte van Oostlant"
5. The most important portolan and the transmission map: Pizigani 1367 Chart
6. A crucial issue: The Ptolemy Problem
7. The root origin: Traces of a Classical Portolan World Map And how the survey was done and the role of the Secret Courts.
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