Maps and Cartography
PAGE The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453 1 The Calendar and the Inscription Beneath It 2 The Map Disk 4 Sources of Leardo’s Geography 6 The Known World According to Leardo 10 Asia 10 Africa 15 The Mediterranean 16 Europe 17 Notes 21 Appendix: Detailed Comments on the Map...
In central Asia, we note two rivers entering the eastern side of the Caspian Sea, the Jaxartes (117) and Oxus (118). The Lake of Aral, in which these great streams actually have...
3. Part 3For more complete bibliographical data relating to publications referred to in abbreviated form in the key and for an explanation of the abbreviations, see pp. 63-67. In bibliog...
1. Part 1PAGE The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453 1 The Calendar and the Inscription Beneath It 2 The Map Disk 4 Sources of Leardo’s Geography 6 The Known World According to Leardo...
4. Part 4249 A river connecting the Sea of Azof with the Caspian is shown on CA and CE, but without the branches reaching the Black Sea; on Piz. this river is named Flm’ Cicopo (the Cico...
5. Part 5611 _gotia_: =“A small stretch of land between the Yaila Range and the coast, in the hands of the Genoese after the fourteenth century” (Kret., Port., 643); see also Yule, Polo,...