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The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul . After the empire's 1517 conquest of Egypt , Piri Reis presented the 1513 world map to Ottoman Sultan Selim I ( r.
The Piri Reis map of 1513 is a world map compiled from a range of contemporary and classical sources. [85] Approximately one third of the map survives, [ 86 ] housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul . [ 87 ]
In the book The Piri Reis Map of 1513 Gregory C. McIntosh examines Hapgood's claims for both maps and states that "they fall short of proving or even strongly suggesting that the Piri Reis map and the Fine map depict the actual outline of Antarctica." [7] [8]
Piri Reis rejoined the Ottoman Navy for the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517) and presented the world map to Selim I in 1517. [7] [8] In the following decade, Piri Reis completed two versions of the Kitab-ı Bahriye and a second world map. [6] When Suleiman the Magnificent began his reign in 1520, Ottoman craftsmen offered exemplars of their ...
The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives; it shows the western coasts of Europe and North Africa and the coast of Brazil with reasonable accuracy.
The Piri Reis map is a famous world map created by 16th-century Ottoman Turkish admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. The surviving third of the map shows part of the western coasts of Europe and North Africa with reasonable accuracy, and the coast of Brazil is also easily recognizable.
But Piri Reis said that he had drawn that map himself using older maps, and the map is consistent with the cartographic knowledge of that time. [33] Also, the map is not "absolutely accurate" as claimed by von Däniken, since it contains many errors and omissions; [ 34 ] a fact that von Däniken did not correct when he covered the map again in ...
English: Map of the world by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis, drawn in 1513. Only part of the original map survives and is held at the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul. The map synthesizes information from many maps, including one drawn by Christopher Columbus of the Caribbean.