AD 1290 · 13th century · Mediterranean

Carta Pisana

The oldest surviving portolan - the sea as a web of bearings.

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Carta Pisana, a portolan chart of the Mediterranean — Bibliothèque nationale de France via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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Bibliography

Campbell, Tony. “Portolan Charts from the Late Thirteenth Century to 1500.” In The History of Cartography, vol. 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Harley, J. B. The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

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