Piri Reis

Piri Reis († 1554 oder 1555 ) war ein Admiral der osmanischen Flotte und Kartograph aus Leidenschaft. Er sammelte Land- und Seekarten und erstellte daraus im Jahre 1513 eine Weltkarte, die heute berühmt und umstritten ist und Karte des Piri Reis genannt wird.

Piri Reis war in seiner Zeit sehr bekannt, da er einige Seeschlachten für das Osmanische Reich gewinnen konnte. Er hatte durch seine herausragende Stellung Zugang zur Bibiliothek des Sultans im Palast Topkai in Konstantinopel (heute Istanbul). Er nutzte dieses Privileg, um aus den unterschiedlichsten Quellen seine berühmte Weltkarte (eigentlich eine Kartenserie) zu erstellen.

External links

• Google: Maps Historical
• McNeese State University: The oldest map of America drawn by Piri Reis; by Prof. Dr. Afetinan
• McNeese State University: The Piri Reis map of 1513 contains notes written on the map in Turkish Citat: "...IV. This map was drawn by Piri Ibn Haji Mehmed, known as the nephew of Kemal Reis, in Gallipoli, in the month of muharrem of the year 919 (that is, between the 9th of March and the 7th of April of the year 1513)...."
• Fra McNeese State University: "Piri Reis and the Columbian Theory" in "Aramco World Magazine" (Jan-Feb 1980) by Paul Lunde Citat: "...There may, in fact, be an even simpler explanation of the presence of "Antarctica" on the Piri Reis map..."
• McNeese State University: 3 MB Piri Reis kortet - høj opløsning
• Piri Reis Map @ Mysterious Earth
• Re: Piri Reis Map Citat: "...William Miller wrote:...The examinations that I have made of it show all sorts of errors that certainly falsify any claim of unusual accuracy for this map..."
• The Mysterious Origins of Man: The Oronteus Finaeus Map of 1532, by Paul Heinrich Paul Heinrich kritiserer her Dr. Charles Hapgood's Antarktis fortolkninger.
• Gregory C. McIntosh, The tale of two admirals - Columbus and the Piri Reis Map of 1513, Mercator's World (Maj/June, 2000).

External links - presummably less trustworthy

• Survive 2012: Piri Reis Citat: "...The projections originate from a point at the intersection of the meridian of Alexandria (30°E) and the Tropic of Cancer....Longitudes were not able to be accurately calculated until the 1770's when John Harrison invented his Chronometer No.4. However, the Piri Reis map has correct and accurate relative longitudes...Maps by Mercator, Oronteus Fineaus and Phillipe Buache also show the pre-glacial Antarctica - before it was discovered ..."
• Webarchive backup: Commander Ohlmeyer's letter Citat: "...The geographical detail shown in the lower part of the map agrees very remarkably with the results of the seismic profile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition of 1949. This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap...."
• Piri Reis kortet (sort hvid med kommentarer)
• Piri Re'is Map of 1513 Citat: "...The knowledge of longitude suggests either a people, or a mechanism, that are currently unknown to us. (This is because the ability to determine longitude with any degree of accuracy is not known before AD 1700 (?) ). The map is based on an equidistant projection with its center on the meridian of Alexandria in Egypt....The degree of accuracy contained in the Piri Re'is map is extraordinary...."
• Antarctica Citat: "...One such map is the Oronteus Finaeus World Map of 1532. The section of this map indicting Antarctica is shown below..."
• The Piri Re'is Map Includes high resolution images, commentary on the modern disputes about the significance of the map and translation of the map commentary.