Article ID: CBB373629190

Conventional Wisdom and the Date of the Kunstmann I Chart (2020)

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It has long been accepted by most historians that the manuscript chart on parchment known as “Kunstmann I,” signed by the famous Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel, was made about 1504. The purpose of the present paper is to advocate c. 1519 as a more likely date for the composition of the Kunstmann I chart. It will be seen that the original pronouncements of past historians for the earlier date were made before other documents found later in the nineteenth century shed light upon the Portuguese voyages to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Repeated by subsequent historians, the dating of c. 1504 become enshrined as conventional wisdom.

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Authors & Contributors
Grijs, Richard de
Poul Holm
Josip Faričić
Leitão, Henrique
K.J. Rankin
Lena Mirošević
Concepts
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Nautical charts
Longitude and latitude
Meridians (geodesy)
Geography
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
19th century
Medieval
18th century
15th century
Places
Spain
Strait of Magellan
Greenwich (England)
Adriatic sea
Sierra Leone
Nile River
Institutions
University of St. Andrews
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