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Abraham Cresques

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Abraham Cresques (1325–1387), whose real name was Cresques (son of) Abraham, was a 14th-century Jewish cartographer from Palma, Majorca (then part of the Crown of Aragon). [1]

26 relations: Antoni Palau i Dulcet, Catalan Atlas, Catalan chart, Compass rose, Crescas, Early world maps, Escola de Sagres, Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram, Guillem Soler, Història de la Marina Catalana, Jaume Ferrer, Jehuda Cresques, Karamanids, La Cartografía Mallorquina, List of Balearics, Majorcan cartographic school, Mallorca, Mappa mundi, Meanings of minor planet names: 304001–305000, Memorias históricas (Capmany), Palma de Mallorca, Portolan chart, Próspero de Bofarull y Mascaró, Spain, Tuat, 1375 in literature.

Antoni Palau i Dulcet

Antoni Palau Dulcet (Montblanc, 1867 - Barcelona, 1954), librarian and bibliographer, author of the monumental Manual del librero hispano americano (Hispanic American bookseller Manual, 1923-1945), Conca de Barbera (1912),and numerous guides from "Montblanc, Poblet i la Conca" (1930-1932).

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Catalan Atlas

The Catalan Atlas (Atles català,,, archaic spelling: Atlas Catalan) is the most important map of the medieval period in the Catalan language (drawn and written in 1375).

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Catalan chart

Catalan charts, Catalan maps or Catalan portolans are a subtype of the medieval period (1300–1500) portolan chart.

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Compass rose

A compass rose, sometimes called a windrose or Rose of the Winds, is a figure on a compass, map, nautical chart, or monument used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west) and their intermediate points.

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Crescas

Crescas (קרשקש) is a Judaeo-Catalan family name, prominent in the former Crown of Aragon.

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Early world maps

The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm.

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Escola de Sagres

--> The School of Sagres, also called Court of Sagres (in Portuguese Escola de Sagres) according to some historians was a group of scientific Portuguese personalities and techniques related to ocean navigation of the fifteenth century, formed around the infant Enrique, nicknamed '' the Navigator '' in Sagres near Cape St. Vincent, the southwestern end of the Iberian Peninsula, in the Algarve.

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Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram

The group of monuments at Mahabalipuram is a collection of 7th- and 8th-century CE religious monuments in the coastal resort town of Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, India and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Guillem Soler

Guillem Soler (fl. 1380s), sometimes given as Guillelmus Soleri, Guillermo Soler and Guglielmo Soleri, was a Majorcan cartographer of the 15th century.

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Història de la Marina Catalana

--> The Història de la Marina Catalana (History of the Catalan Navy) is a book written by Arcadi Garcia Sanz that enumerates all aspects of the Catalan Navy in the trade and in the war, its exploits and conquests, a historic collection ranging from prehistoric times to the present day.

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Jaume Ferrer

Jaume Ferrer (fl. 1346) was a Majorcan sailor and explorer.

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Jehuda Cresques

Jehudà Cresques (1360-1410), also known as Jafudà Cresques, Jaume Riba, and Cresques lo Juheu ("Cresques the Jew"), was a converso cartographer in the early 15th century.

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Karamanids

The Karamanids or Karamanid dynasty (Modern Turkish: Karamanoğulları, Karamanoğulları Beyliği), also known as the Principality of Karaman and Beylik of Karaman (Karaman Beyliği), was one of the Islamic Anatolian beyliks, centered in south-central Anatolia around the present-day Karaman Province.

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La Cartografía Mallorquina

--> La Cartografía Mallorquina (The Majorcan cartography) is a book of essays on the Majorcan portolans written by Professor Julio Rey Pastor with the collaboration of Ernesto García Camarero.

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List of Balearics

This is a list of famous Balearic people (people from the Balearic Islands, one of the Autonomous Communities of Spain).

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Majorcan cartographic school

"Majorcan cartographic school" is the term coined by historians to refer to the collection of predominantly Jewish cartographers, cosmographers and navigational instrument-makers and some Christian associates that flourished in Majorca in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries until the expulsion of the Jews.

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Mallorca

Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean.

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Mappa mundi

A mappa mundi (Latin; plural.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 304001–305000

233 | 304233 Majaess || || Daniel Majaess (born 1984) is a young Canadian observational astronomer who researches the Cepheid distance scale, variable stars, and the Milky Way's spiral structure and its many star clusters.

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Memorias históricas (Capmany)

--> Memorias históricas sobre la marina, comercio y artes de la antigua ciudad de Barcelona. (. Historical Records on marine, trade and arts of the ancient city of Barcelona) As its title indicates, is a summary paper on the Navy, the trade and the arts of the city of Barcelona, written by the famous Antonio de Capmany y Montpalau.

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Palma de Mallorca

Palma de Mallorca, frequently used name for the city of Palma, is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain.

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Portolan chart

Portolan or portulan charts are navigational maps based on compass directions and estimated distances observed by the pilots at sea.

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Próspero de Bofarull y Mascaró

Prospero de Bofarull y Mascaró (born in Reus in 1777) was a Spanish historian and archivist, archivist and director of the General Archive of the Crown of Aragon between 1814 and 1840 and from 1844 to 1849.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Tuat

Tuat, or Touat (Berber: ⵜⵓⵡⴰⵜ, Tuwat), is a natural region of desert in central Algeria that contains a string of small oases.

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1375 in literature

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Abraham de Cresques, Cresques Abraham.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Cresques

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