File:Piet Mado.jpg
Piet_Mado.jpg (379 × 376 pixels, file size: 122 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
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Summary
[edit]- w:Carta marina, a wallmap of Scandinavia, by w:Olaus Magnus.
Info
[edit]- A part of entire map showing man, possibly shepherd fighting snakes in central Finland. Rowing boat has a cannon on its deck (!) close or inside region of Savolax.
- The image is amazingly detailed with lots of small characters everywhere doing characteristic tasks, which can only be seen when viewing it in full size.
- The full title is Carta marina et Descriptio septemtrionalium terrarum ac mirabilium rerum in eis contentarum, diligentissime elaborata Annon Domini 1539 Veneciis liberalitate Reverendissimi Domini Ieronimi Quirini which in full can be read at the top of the map.
- This image is in 72 DPI.
- If you do not want to download this 5 MB version, try this 1500 pixel thumbnail instead archive copy at the Wayback Machine, which is only about 900 kilobytes.
Source and license
[edit]- It is from http://www.npm.ac.uk/rsdas/projects/carta_marina/ "Carta Marina satellite images"
- Some info: Figure 1. The 1539 Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus. Please credit the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota if you reproduce this map. There is also a high-resolution version (5 MB) for printing. Direct link to there: http://bell.lib.umn.edu/map/OLAUS/indexo.html
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current | 19:34, 17 April 2007 | 379 × 376 (122 KB) | Tuohirulla (talk | contribs) | == Summary == * w:Carta marina, a wallmap of Scandinavia, by w:Olaus Magnus. ===Info=== * A part of entire map showing man fighting snakes in Finland * The image is amazingly detailed with lots of small characters everywhere doing characteristi |
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