Re: Giovanni Contarini- Francesco Rosselli, 1506 worldmap

From: Inger E Johansson (inger_e.johansson_at_notelia.com)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:41:41 GMT

Lukas,
send me a privat mail-link which is valid then I can send you some more
information + files.

Inger E

"Lukas Pietsch" <lukas.pietsch@uni-no-hamburg-spam.de> skrev i meddelandet
news:cbp41h$j3k$1@rzsun03.rrz.uni-hamburg.de...
> Inger wrote:
> [...]
> > If you aren't
> > familiar with the projections used in the 'Old' days, then you aren't
> simple
> > as that.
> [...]
> Okay, then please tell me: what is the projection used? There are meridian
> lines drawn in the map. What do you think, how many degrees of latitude
does
> each of them stand for?
>
> Lukas
>
> (BTW, I take your silence as confirmation that the area you mean by Alaska
> is indeed the one I pointed out, the one labelled "IVDEI CLAVSI".)
>
>

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