Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Piri Reis


A 1513 map of from Turkey with notes. One of the notes is "This country is inhabited. The entire population go naked." Link…
I have hugely downsampled the image from here

2 comments:

  1. It's not really "of Turkey," but it is from Turkey.

    It's actually of the East Coast of South America and the West Coast of Africa.

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  2. Thanks Chris J, fixed. Coincidentally there was a post on Metafilter about this just the other day.

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