Re: You People are Beginning to Bore Me...
- From: James A. Donald <jamesd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:18:47 +1000
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:11:48 -0500, elanders
<elanders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Piri Reis map (1513) is generally recognized as
the first map depicting North American. The problem is
Piri Reis' inscription in the corner of the map says
the map is based on source maps many years older
including some that go back to Alexander the great.
It is a map of the world, not just the Americas. Of
course Piri Reis lists sources both ancient and
contemporary. That he lists ancient sources is not
evidence that these were his sources for the Americas.
The map is best explained by assuming that for the
Americas, Piri Reis is putting together data from
many, many voyages to the Americas, most of them
unrecorded in history.
Since they could measure latitude accurately in those
days, but not longitude, Piri Reis accurately positions
each landfall north or south relative to other
landfalls, but his guesses about how far one landfall
was east or west from another landfall are wildly wrong:
<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Piri_Reis_map_interpretation.jpg>
With the result that North America develops a multitude
of offshore islands, and the southern tail of South America
swerves wildly east.
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