Science Art: Jorge de Aguiar’s Compass Rose, 1492
Entered By: grantb on February 1, 2009
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From Wikimedia Commons, original in Beinecke Library, Yale University.
Jorge de Aguiar was a Portuguese cartographer who explored Ethiopia and Arabia in the early 1500s, was lost off Tristan de Cunha island, and inspired subsequent generations of poets.
His chart of Western Africa is the oldest signed map in existence.
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