Catalan Chart, Mediterranean and European Seaports, 1484

Diagrammatic map of weights and measures in use in 27 Mediterranean and European seaports. Oriented with north to the right. Each port city is represented by a vignette of a prominent local tower and the vignettes are connected by rhumb lines. Catalan charts, Catalan maps or Catalan portolans are a subtype of the medieval period (1300-1500) portolan chart. Portolan and Catalan maps all share the characteristic windrose networks, which emanate out from compass roses located at various points on the map. Portolan and Catalan maps are also characterized by the accuracy of inland features, sometimes for the lines of latitude/longitude and specially for the lack of map projection, for cartometric investigation has revealed that no projection was used in portolans. Attributed to Arnald DomC nech and Piero Roselli, 1484

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1484 Cartographic Cartographical Fifteenth Map-making Mapmaking Navigational Portolan Seaports

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