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The full name of Piri Reis is Hadji Muhiddin Piri Ibn Hadji Mehmed. Goodrich, in a pioneering work, also went a long way to correct the overall impression, giving excellent accounts of the Ottoman descriptions of the New World as it was then being discovered in all its strangeness, variety and richness.įigure 2: Another portrait of Piri Reis ( Source) Hess notes that when Piri Reis presented his famous map of the New World to the Sultan Selim I in 1517, he provided the Ottomans, well before many European rulers, with an accurate description of America as well as details about the circumnavigation of Africa. The amazing advance of Turkish nautical science and cartography in the 16th century is well documented by experts. Special attention was given to Ottoman maps, whether they be the charts of the Mediterranean or world maps, especially those designed by Pirei Reis. However, several scholarly works have been published recently that shed light on the contribution of Ottoman scholars to the development of cartography, geography and nautical science. Until recently, historians were mostly preoccupied with unravelling the dramatic story of the geographical discoveries and oceanic voyages undertaken from the late 15th century. The achievements of the Ottomans are related to their contribution to the wider subject of geography and nautical science. The geographical extent of its action extended from the most further western parts of the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and the Straight of Hormuz. The Ottoman navy is famous for its military glory from around the late 11th century to the 18th century at least. į igure 1: Portrait of Piri Reis ( Source) It is republished with revisions and new illustrations. This article was published on in July 2002. Nautical instructions in Kitab-i BahriyeĦ.
This article presents the achievements of Piri Reis in cartography through the analysis of the surviving partial versions of his two world maps and his book of navigation, the Kitab-i Bahriye.ĥ. The half of the map which survives shows the western coasts of Europe and North Africa and the coast of Brazil with reasonable accuracy in addition to various Atlantic islands including the Azores and Canary Islands. His famous world map compiled in 1513 and discovered in 1929 at Topkapi Palace in Istanbul is the oldest known Turkish map showing the New World, and one of the oldest maps of America still in existence. Piri Reis is a well known Ottoman-Turkish admiral, geographer and cartographer from the 16th century.
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