Talk:Piri Reis

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Good catch on the "other hand" thing, Andre. --Ed Poor

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[edit] Occult

According to a TV program I saw:

• the map displays the Andes before their discovery.
• The island of Marajo in the mouth of Amazon river doesn't appear. An old map?
• Some text says that Columbus discovered the land in the year x Anno Hegira. That would be 148x.

-- Error 00:30, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Corrected statement that this was the first map to show America to first Turkish map to show America. Many maps, both manuscript and printed, were made in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Poland, etc., between 1492 and 1513 that depicted America.

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Someone added an image of the map with the claim that it shows perfectly the coast of Antarctica. This is nonsense as it is clearly an extension of the coast of South America (if it isn't, why is the bottom half of South America missing?). I have removed that claim. I suggest that person read some of the links (especially the debunking one I added some time back). --Infradig (andrew) 02:17, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Competing Wikipedia Entry

In case you aren't aware, there is a competing entry of sorts overlapping with this one at Piri Reis Map. Ideally, there should be discrete entries for Piri Reis the person and the Piri Reis map. My suggestion is that either 1) this page only include discussion of Piri Reis himself and not the map, or 2) there be only one page, entitled Piri Reis Map, that discusses both the person and the map. Comments? --Varenius 21:45, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)