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File:Icy est le vrai pourtraict naturel de la ville, cité, université de Parisy, Rossingol execut.1576.jpg, featured
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Info created by Rossingol - uploaded, restored and nominated by me -- Jebulon (talk) 19:20, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
Support This 1576 old map of Paris. Of course my city is far much bigger now, but this very high size and very detailed version shows streets which are still existing with the same name. It is an excellent and useful document, with many little interesting details about disappeared monuments or buildings (the Temple, la Bastille, Montfaucon (the hanging place), the islands etc. Nice and high value IMO.-- Jebulon (talk) 19:20, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
Support Very nice document, good restoration. Yann (talk) 20:14, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
Support Great detail, interesting. Any idea why it is not oriented towards north? Is is just due to the shape of the city or the Seine? --DXR (talk) 16:25, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you. No idea at all. I just notice that all original maps of the 16th-century are so. Probably it was not a mandatory at that time. Anyway, we have a "rose-compass" indicating the north (and the east: Jerusalem). @ Alvesgaspar, any help, please ?--Jebulon (talk) 17:18, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
- Not only Paris.--Paris 16 (talk) 19:01, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
- It was always a common practise, even today, to orient the urban planes according to the conveniences (that is, the shape of the area, the orientation of the main streets or rivers, etc.). Concerning the larger scale maps and charts it took some time to adopt the north-up standard. For example, in all nautical charts before the Mercator projection was adopted, the geographic names of the places along the coast were written perpendicular to it, thus rotating according to the orientation of the coastlines. Those charts did not have a well-defined orientation. During the Middle Ages, and nearly up to the fifteenth century, the world maps were often oriented to East (i.e. to "Orient", were the Earthly Paradise was located) or to South. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 19:15, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks! That's quite interesting, but of course it makes sense, especially for nautic purposes. --DXR (talk) 19:30, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
- Excellent ! I love when "Commons" is like that !--Jebulon (talk) 19:58, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
- This is indeed the best of Commons: what we learn (including about ourselves and human behaviour in general) and what we help others to learn. Alvesgaspar (talk) 20:31, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks! That's quite interesting, but of course it makes sense, especially for nautic purposes. --DXR (talk) 19:30, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Comment I just noticed a small black line over the man carrying something on his back in the lower right corner, can you fix it? --DXR (talk) 20:40, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you. No idea at all. I just notice that all original maps of the 16th-century are so. Probably it was not a mandatory at that time. Anyway, we have a "rose-compass" indicating the north (and the east: Jerusalem). @ Alvesgaspar, any help, please ?--Jebulon (talk) 17:18, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Support Pls remove the small black line.--Claus (talk) 11:36, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
- I'll correct this ASAP. It is probably an uploading issue.--Jebulon (talk) 12:08, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
Done --Paris 16 (talk) 18:25, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
- I'll correct this ASAP. It is probably an uploading issue.--Jebulon (talk) 12:08, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
Support --Halavar (talk) 22:47, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Support -Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:46, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
Support - Beautiful image and excellent quality. I use Gallica a lot to download maps. But to obtain high resolution versions one must do a lot of stitching! -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 19:49, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
- Oh yes !! --Jebulon (talk) 21:04, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
Support Great document! 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 22:35, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
Result: 8 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- ChristianFerrer 19:31, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
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