A medieval map mystery may finally be solved
“We’ll just have to think our way back, step by step.” That’s what the Dutch geodesist Roelof Nicolai said in 2014 in a Strange Maps article . Nicolai had just spent his PhD years discovering that portolan charts — those gorgeous, wind-rose-covered coastline maps that suddenly appeared in Mediterranean ports in the second half of the 13th century — were geometrically too accurate to have been…
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