Conventional Wisdom and the Date of the Kunstmann I Chart
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 Kunstma...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/cart-2019-0005 2024-02-04T10:02:11+01:00 Conventional Wisdom and the Date of the Kunstmann I Chart McIntosh, Gregory 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cart-2019-0005 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/cart-2019-0005 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization volume 55, issue 2, page 85-98 ISSN 0317-7173 1911-9925 Earth-Surface Processes journal-article 2020 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/cart-2019-0005 2024-01-09T18:20:19Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization 55 2 85 98 |
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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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