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Northeast Africa: Map of the Nile from its source in Abyssinia to the Mediterranean, Vincenzo Coronelli (1690)

A Venetian cartographer, Coronelli (1650-1718) cites his sources for this Nile map, including the Portuguese Jesuits Pedro Páez and Jerónimo Lobo, and contrasts his work with an inset showing the “original” (that is, outdated) course of the Nile as presented by past geographers, who followed the Ptolemaic tradition of two source lakes. Páez and Lobo had visited Ethiopia in the early 1600s, and both gave accounts of having seen the springs that natives believed to be the river’s source, though the Jesuits failed to distinguish between the two branches of the river. Coronelli’s Nile is the Blue Nile, and his geography is fairly accurate for that branch, identifying the significance of Lake Tsana and the clockwise unfolding of the river as it descends from there.

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Northeast Africa: Map of the Nile from its source in Abyssinia to the Mediterranean, Vincenzo Coronelli (1690)

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A Venetian cartographer, Coronelli (1650-1718) cites his sources for this Nile map, including the Portuguese Jesuits Pedro Páez and Jerónimo Lobo, and contrasts his work with an inset showing the “original” (that is, outdated) course of the Nile as presented by past geographers, who followed the Ptolemaic tradition of two source lakes. Páez and Lobo had visited Ethiopia in the early 1600s, and both gave accounts of having seen the springs that natives believed to be the river’s source, though the Jesuits failed to distinguish between the two branches of the river. Coronelli’s Nile is the Blue Nile, and his geography is fairly accurate for that branch, identifying the significance of Lake Tsana and the clockwise unfolding of the river as it descends from there.

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4807 x 3573 px | 49.1 MB

Tamaño impresión:

40.7 x 30.3 cm | 16.0 x 11.9 in (300 dpi)

Palabras clave:

AFRICA • AFRICANA • AFRICANO • ARABIA • CARTOGRAFIA • EGIPCIA • EGIPCIAS • EGIPCIO • EGIPTO • ETIOPIA • GRAFICO • HISTORIA • HISTORICO • MAPA • MAR ROJO • NUBIA • SUDAN