Columbus sailed to America on an old map

U.S. Library of Congress put on public display an ancient map that first named America America. Clearly traced, and South America shows the Pacific Ocean, where none of the Europeans at that time had not yet seen. And, most importantly, the card was issued in 1507 - just 15 years after Columbus discovered the New World.

Author maps known. German monk Martin Valdzeemyuller produced it on request of one of the German princes who were interested in geography. However, the card was detected only in 1901 - the descendants of Prince accidentally stumbled upon it, going through the cellars of his ancestral castle. Continents and oceans are inscribed on 12 sheets, which are laid out in a certain way, become a unique map of the dimensions 2.32 by 1.20 meters.

Several years ago, the Germans sold rarity Library of Congress U.S. $ 10 million.
Terra incognita.

Now scientists are asking: how could so accurately Valdzeemyulleru delineate the coast of South America?.

- Accuracy of this card is extremely small - said Adam Nowicki, a representative of the Library of Congress. - It does not exceed a few kilometers. Map is accurate to approximately eighty percent. For the beginning of the XVI century it is surprising.

Historians have a version of that, making your card, the monk had corresponded with Amerigo Vespucci - another researcher of the new continent, which first went to South America in 1499. And by taking part in several expeditions, and explored the Atlantic coast of the continent. Perhaps he was a friend of Columbus by.

There is a hypothesis: Valdzeemyuller enough information Amerigo cast a spell that as a sign of great deference suggested naming the new continent his name. And he wrote the name on his map. By the way, before the current America simply called ...

But what about the fact that Amerigo Vespucci could not tell cartographer of the Pacific coast of South America? . However, this part of the map is more accurate than the one which portrayed the continent from the Atlantic.

And another oddity. In the edition of the map in 1507 a new continent called America. And on the same map, but was released in 1513, he wrote Valdzeemyuller: «Terra incognita» - « Unknown Land...



The famous map of Valdzeemyullera made ​​in the projections are not familiar to us. Therefore, Central and South America there is so unusual (1). But at the top of the map given to this continent to the other, we are familiar with the projection (2). And next to him a portrait of Amerigo Vespucci.


Riddle of Piri Reis.

In 1929 in Istanbul, in the ancient Topkapi Palace, converted into a museum, Dr. Edhem stumbled upon a fragment of an unknown map, dated 1513 year. It has been shown not only a fragment of the American continent, and Antarctica.

Studies have confirmed that the age of maps is specified exactly. Her boss ( was the name on the map ) - is also a real historical figure: Piri Ibn Haji Mahmed - Turkish sailor, author of several textbooks and atlases of marine navigation.

Flight accurately conveyed the relief of the coast of Chile, the Andes mountain range have. Correctly depicted the Amazon, and, moreover, drew Marazho Island at the mouth of the river, opened only in 1543. No, he definitely was not in Antarctica. But in his ... Rather, the documents from the Library of Alexandria founded by him - it was located in what is now Egypt.

Library lasted fifteen hundred years, and it has collected millions of ancient handwritten documents, perhaps even now unknown civilizations. Store completely destroyed the Arabs in VII - VIII centuries AD. e. A Flight, who served on warships in the Mediterranean and Red seas, looking for crumbs from bought and preserved ...

In this age of geographic discoveries of navigators there were a lot of rumors about ancient maps, which are unknown to the land. They had just starred mariners. The owners took care of them and carefully hidden from prying eyes. It was rumored that one of these cards - with the image of America - and used by Christopher Columbus. And from him she could get to the Amerigo Vespucci, and then to Martin Valdzeemyulleru.

A beautiful legend? .



Traditionally, this very nasty disease of the New World to the Old brought sailors of Columbus, was closely associated with the continent's native Open. After the first epidemic of syphilis in Europe began just shortly after the return of the first expedition of Christopher Columbus. Similarly, genetic studies have shown that the pathogen of the disease - a microorganism that originated in South America. But now archaeologists in Ireland found several burials, where bones of the skeletons were damaged, similar to those that occur in people with syphilis. Also, similar symptoms are described in some ancient Egyptian papyri in Medicine. But by whom and how the Egyptians got this disease is unknown. Do any of them did get to South America? .




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