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The Liber de existencia riveriarum (c.1200) and the Birth of Nautical Cartography.

The earliest known historical clue to what might be a primitive nautical chart is in a medieval manuscript of c.1200, the Liber de existencia riveriarum et forma maris nostri mediterranei, which describes the Mediterranean Sea. The body of the manuscript consists of an account of the Mediterranean a...

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Published in:Imago Mundi Vol. 71; no. 1; pp. 1 - 22
Main Author: Gaspar, Joaquim Alves
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2019
Subjects:
Cartography
Nautical charts
Magnetic declination
Compass (Orienteering & navigation)
Mediterranean Sea
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