Bust of Piri Reis in Gallipoli. Muhiddin Piri (c. 1470 – 1553), better known as Piri Reis (Turkish: Pîrî Reis), was an Ottoman cartographer, admiral, navigator, corsair, and geographer.

The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul . After the empire's 1517 conquest of Egypt , Piri Reis presented the 1513 world map to Ottoman Sultan Selim I ( r.

2018年5月9日 · The Piri Reis map was created in 1513, 260 years before James Cook discovered Antarctica. So why was it on this world map?

2019年9月9日 · On the gazelle skin parchment was a map, now referred to as the Piri Reis map. The map was drawn and signed by Turkish cartographer Hagji Ahmed Muhiddin Piri , aka Piri Reis, and is dated to 1513 AD.

2016年7月25日 · Compiled in 1513, the Piri Reis map is one of the oldest post-Columbian world maps in existence. Drawn on gazelle skin by an Ottoman Turkish admiral and cartographer named Piri Reis, the map is extremely detailed for its time.

2020年3月17日 · In 1513, Ottoman-Turkish cartographer and geographer Ahmed Muhiddin Piri, otherwise known as Piri Reis, set out to document the known world in map form. Reis was also an admiral in the Turkish navy and a seasoned traveler of the high seas.

2022年4月3日 · On Oct. 29, 1929, researchers looking through old, disregarded documents at the Library of Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey unexpectedly stumbled across one of the most important artifacts in world history – the Piri Reis map.

In the introduction, Piri Reis explains his reasons of writing the manual and the benefits of the navigational sciences for sailors and gives accounts of storms and winds, the compass, nautical charts and their symbols, the different seas, and oceans, Portuguese colonies on the shores of the Indian Ocean, voyages of exploration along with the ...

Muhiddin Piri, better known as Piri Reis, was an Ottoman cartographer, admiral, navigator, corsair, and geographer. He is primarily known today for his cartogra...

2024年11月25日 · The Piri Reis map, made in 1513 AD, is known for its accurate coastlines. It shows the eastern coast of South America and parts of Africa with great detail. The Brazilian coast is especially precise, surprising today’s cartographers.