The Portolan Charts: The Medieval Map Mystery

The rhumb-line charts of medieval Italy and Catalonia — the most accurate maps Europe would make for three centuries, and the unfinished-business mystery of where they came from.

Playlist by @age_of_charts

8 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. This 14th century chart was just rediscovered...it changes map making history — Geography Geek
2. Marguerite Ragnow examines a Portolan chart — ManeyPublishing
3. Richard Pflederer on Portolan Charts - Mondays at Beinecke, October 31, 2022 — Beinecke Library at Yale
4. Measuring the World against a 16th-century Portolan Luxury Atlas — Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies
5. Early Days in African Historical Cartography: The Imaging of Africa in Portolan Charts & Maps-Part 1 — Tim Weiskel
6. The World of Ptolemy and the Birth of the Cartographic Atlas — Library of Congress
7. Lecture: "How Did They Make Those Maps" — McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture
8. A Brief History of Cartography and Maps — KnowledgeHusk