![World map. Jean Guérard de Dieppe, "Les Commencemens de l'Hidrographie. . ." [Dieppe?, 1630?] Manuscript, colors and gold on vellum. 20 leaves, 18 cm. (Part I, entry 4), Houghton Library, MS Typ 33, f 9v, gift of Philip Hofer, 1947.](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sonja-Brentjes/publication/259366935/figure/fig3/AS:669514131845133@1536636016340/World-map-Jean-Guerard-de-Dieppe-Les-Commencemens-de-lHidrographie-Dieppe_Q320.jpg)
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From Rhubarb to Rubies. ... Catalogue of 2 Exhibitions in Cooperation with Elio Brancaforte.
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Presents an overview of the ways in which Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction towards Mecca (qibla) and then describes, in detail, two 17th-century brass Iranian maps discovered in 1989 and 1995. The author shows that the geographical data derives from a 15th-century Central Asian source and that the mathematics underlying the grid was developed in 9th-century Baghdad.
The cordiform projection employed by Oronce Fine, Gerard Mercator and Abraham Ortelius may have had a hermetic meaning. The focus in this paper is on Ortelius, for recent studies have suggested connections between Ortelius, Christopher Plantin and a clandestine religious sect in Antwerp, called the Family of Love (Family of Charity), whose emblem was the heart, source of divine illumination and of Free Will. It is argued that Ortelius's contemporaries in the radical religious circles of northern Europe would have perceived the Theatrum orbis terrarum in such a light. As Guillaume Postel's evaluation of Ortelius's work demonstrates, the atlas was considered a talismanic book based on the power of the images.
The first edition of the so-called Mercator-Hondius atlas appeared in 1606
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of Iran), and several new texts in Latin, Dutch, French, German, English, and
Spanish. The first edition of the so-called Mercator-Hondius atlas appeared in
1606, followed by a pocket version, under the name Atlas Minor, a year later.
Asien auf Karten: von der Antike bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts = Asia in maps from ancient times to the mid-19th century
- Egon Klemp
Egon Klemp, ed., Asien auf Karten: von der Antike bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts = Asia in
maps from ancient times to the mid-19th century, (Leipzig: Edition Leipzig; Weinheim: Acta humaniora,
1989), nr. 12.
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La carte de l' empire des Sarrazins ou des caliphs, sous Vlit, qui regnoit environ l' an 700; tirée d'Abulfeda, de Nassir-Eddin, d'Vlug-Bei, et d' autres autheurs Arabes
- Pierre Du
Pierre Du Val. La carte de l' empire des Sarrazins ou des caliphs, sous Vlit, qui
regnoit environ l' an 700; tirée d'Abulfeda, de Nassir-Eddin, d'Vlug-Bei, et d' autres
autheurs Arabes. Paris, [n.d.] 16 x 23.5 cm. 95
Carte du Voyage de Mr. l'Evesque de Beryte
- Pierre Du
Pierre Du Val. Carte du Voyage de Mr. l'Evesque de Beryte... Paris, [n.d.]
16.5 x 23.5 cm. 96
Archives des Missions Étrangères de Paris
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Paris, Archives des Missions Étrangères de Paris, <http://archivesmep.mepasie.org/annuaire/
vietnam/notices-necrologies/1600-1699/1624-01.htm> (accessed March 3, 2008).