A 500-year-old map used by Columbus reveals its secrets
Oct 8, 2018 · Newly uncovered text opens a time capsule of one of history’s most influential maps. This 1491 map is the best surviving map of the world as Christopher Columbus knew it as he made his...
Hidden secrets of Yale’s 1491 world map revealed via ... - YaleNews
Jun 11, 2015 · The map, which dates to about 1491 and depicts the Earth’s surface from the Atlantic in the west to Japan in the east, is dotted with descriptions in Latin of various regions and peoples. A text box visible over northern Asia describes the people of “Balor” who live without wine or wheat and subsist on deer meat.
Did This Map Guide Columbus? | Smithsonian
The map itself is undated, but there are clues it was created in 1491: It quotes a book published that year, and Christopher Columbus may have consulted the map (or a copy) before his great...
Uncovering Hidden Text on a 500-Year-Old Map That Guided …
Sep 15, 2014 · The map was made in or around 1491 by Henricus Martellus, a German cartographer working in Florence. It's not known how many were made, but Yale owns the only surviving copy. It's a big map...
Hidden secrets of Yale’s 1491 world map revealed via …
Aug 5, 2015 · Henricus Martellus, a German cartographer working in Florence in the late 15th century, produced a highly detailed map of the known world. According to experts, there is strong evidence that Christopher Columbus studied this map …
Advanced Imaging Reveals Secrets of 1491 Map Columbus May …
Jun 13, 2015 · The map, created by German cartographer Henricus Martellus toward the end of the 15th century and now housed at Yale, has faded and blurred over time, but researchers have managed to pry out its...
Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491) - Springer
This book presents groundbreaking new research on a fifteenth-century world map by Henricus Martellus, c. 1491, now at Yale. The importance of the map had long been suspected, but it was essentially unstudiable because the texts on it had faded to illegibility.
Recovering Lost Details of a 15th-Century World Map
Aug 14, 2014 · Drawn in about 1491, the Martellus map is considered the best contemporary cartographic representation of Columbus’ conception of the world at the time of his first voyage. While the map makes for a fascinating wall decoration, five centuries of fading and scuffing have rendered much of its text and other details illegible or invisible.
Multispectral Imaging Could Reveal Secrets Of Martellus Map
Sep 17, 2014 · A team of researchers are using multispectral imaging to uncover hidden text on a 1491 Martellus map, one of the most important maps in history.
Hidden secrets of 1491 world map revealed via multispectral …
Jun 12, 2015 · The map, which dates to about 1491 and depicts the Earth's surface from the Atlantic in the west to Japan in the east, is dotted with descriptions in Latin of various regions and peoples.