PIRI REIS MAP
from HenryDavis Website http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/mapas_pirireis/esp_mapaspirireis10.htm DATE : 1513 AUTHOR : Piri Re'is DESCRIPTION : During a naval campaign against Venice in 1501, a Turkish fleet captured a Spanish ship in the western Mediterranean. One of the prisoners taken had earlier made three voyages to the West Indies with Columbus and carried with him a set of Columbus's American charts. In this fortuitous manner Kemal Re'is, the famous Turkish admiral, acquired maps of great importance showing a newly discovered part of the world. Piri Re'is , nephew of Kemal, was born in Gallipoli on the shore of the Dardanelles in 1470. Piri also became an admiral and is remembered as a scholar of navigational science and an accomplished linguist. He produced charts, an important book on navigation, and a superb map of the world, which employed the Columbus maps taken by his uncle's sailors. Although fragmentary, this work and the Zorzi sket...