Thanks Fractal Trader.
Posted on 09/19/2014 7:48:44 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
In 1491, German cartographer Henricus Martellus created a map of the world that would help Christopher Columbus navigate the Atlantic.
Today, the map holds secrets about what Europeans in the 15th Century knew about geography. But unfortunately much of its historic text has faded.
But now a team of researchers in the US is using a technique called multispectral imaging to uncover the hidden information that Columbus had at his fingertips. In 1491, cartographer Henricus Martellus created a map of the world that would help Christopher Columbus navigate the Atlantic. Today, it holds secrets into what 15th Century Europeans knew about geography
In 1491, cartographer Henricus Martellus created a map of the world that would help Christopher Columbus navigate the Atlantic. Today, it holds secrets into what 15th Century Europeans knew about geography
The Martellus map depicts the Earth's surface from the Atlantic in the west to Japan in the east and is surrounded with descriptions in Latin of various regions and civilisations.
For instance, a text box over northern Asia describes the 'Balor' people who 'live without wine or wheat and get their nutrients from deer meat'. But much of the other text is illegible.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I wonder how they went about making maps of entire countries/continents back then. They had no satellites, aircraft, or anything of the sort. Yet, they were fairly accurate for their time.
I’m sure the folks on ‘H2’ every Friday night would tell us it was done with help from the ETs!!! (lol)
I have always wondered if C.C. was the first guy (Captain of ships) to try the crossing. My guess is that he wouldn’t have gotten three ships if there wasn’t some previous intel about the possibility. Plus, he was just the first guy to “get back”.
The “Mississippian culture” as well as a few others fell apart around the early/mid 1400s. Some say it was due to overuse of the land - but the Mississippians were on a flood plain and had been successful for 500 years or so.
My guess it was due to disease that they could not handle and the accompanying panic of a plague. You don’t have to actually get back to Europe to deliver a plague - you don’t even have to be alive when you get to the Americas for that purpose. There was (verified) a large amount of trade via waterways by indigenous peoples, well prior to the “discovery” of America.
LOL!
My husband and I lived on that coast. He's passed on now but we were both Republicans and very conservative. He was brought up in OAKLAND...and was conservative.
I am even MORE conservative now that I am older and I still live on that coast!
Cape Horn was originally given the Dutch name Kaap Hoorn, in honor of the Dutch city of Hoorn. (Wikipedia)
Being the FIRST Americans is honor enough, I believe.
Really? Perhaps, you are right. Yet, the east coast of Our United States, is and always has been, the origin of lefty politics. Georgia, in specie and by manner, sir.
I hope everyone understands that “the map holds secrets about what Europeans in the 15th Century knew about geography. But unfortunately much of its historic text has faded.”
The comments following the article go downhill fast. What’s wrong with people? The internet creates its own version of beer muscles.
I'm going on a cruise down the Mississippi this fall and I bet we hear about them. As least I will have HEARD of them, thanks to YOU. It's an historic site so we might stop there.
THANKS.
Technology ping regarding studying the map
” ... were the FIRST Americans.”
A feat they duely achieved by killing off the people that preceeded them ... Then it was their turn ...
Unfortunately for us, the real map data was a state secret in 15th century Portugal, and Martellus only had access to what the Portuguese felt comfortable releasing. All that the Portuguese map makers knew was kept in the Lisbon Library which was destroyed in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.
TRUE.
One of the discoveries of archeologists were skulls of humans that predated the Asian immigrants...and they had OVAL skulls, which said "European."
The first Americans, Siberian hunter groups, had DIFFERENT shaped heads indicating an Asian source.
It wasn’t settled science so...
Interesting. Thanks for the ping.
“I think I see Ohio, Columbus!”
“That’s Columbus, Ohio.”
It’s not clear that there was any population in North America prior to the American Indians — who probably came over a land bridge over the Aleutian Strait — but remember this is a vast continent. It’s hard to kill off a population in an area that large. The history of Europeans and American Indians is checkered. American Indians didn’t go for settlements; they were nomads over large swaths of territory. They often warred with one another. Sometimes one tribe of American Indians would ask for the help of Europeans in fighting another tribe of American Indians. The present system of reservations is probably as magnanimous as could be expected, though ill suited to the culture of nomadic peoples.
Thanks Fractal Trader.
“It’s not clear that there was any population in North America prior ...”
There’s lots of evidence. You might have to dig for it, as the current crop of reservation wonders and their allies have worked hard to keep anything prior to their arrival obscure or generally unknown. Those who lived here were simply overwhelmed by the flood of ‘illegals’ ... They like to play into white man’s straight-line thinking.
What there isn’t any of is written evidence, just various bones, tools, anomalies, etc - all of which remain under heavy reservation political watch. In other words, they claim those things are their ancestors period and case closed - and use the ‘we were created here’ language to keep their political perks and the BIA money coming in.
The whole of Indians ‘special rights’ rests on keeping their spiel intact: that they are the first people on this continent.
“Lo, the poor Indian ...” - A. Pope.
To paraphrase J.B.S Haldane: the past isn’t just queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
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