At a time when the mortality rate for distant maritime voyages was 50 percent, the Bible, legend, and lore gave birth to a sea full of extraordinary danger. The original "Carta Marina" was 23 square ...
A 16th-century illustration of imaginary sea monsters from Cosmographia by Sebastian Mustern, based on creatures from Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus. © Bettmann/CORBIS ...
H. Thomas Rossby, Peter Miller, Ocean Eddies in the 1539 Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus, Oceanography, Vol. 16, No. 4, Special Issue — Ocean Observations (2003), pp. 77-88 ...
An ancient map of the North Atlantic - which features sea snakes and other dreadful monsters - may have boasted surprisingly advanced information. The Carta Marina - published in 1539 - depicts ...
Map historian Chet Van Duzer gave a talk about ancient maps and sea monsters at the Library of Congress Thursday (Sept. 5).Above: One of the classic images of a sea monster on a map: a giant ...
The copy of "Gesta Danorum" contains one of the earliest accounts of the most infamous massacre in Swedish history. Photo: Andrea Davis Kronlund/KB Sweden's national library has forked out millions ...
Sea Monsters introduces readers to Magnuss marvellous marine beasts by taking an imaginary voyage up the northern seas of his historic map with Magnus himself as guide. As each creature is encountered ...
Sebastian Münster’s “Tabula novarum insularum, quas Diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas uocant” (1554), the first printed map of the American continent, showing North America bent over to ...
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