Thursday, March 22, 2007

Greater Lusitania Jobbed by the Brits

Imagine. Crocodilho Dondi speaking like Figo, or the Croc Hunter spouting in a whacky Timor Leste accent. Oh the opportunities lost.
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3 comments:

Arelcao Akleos said...

"Trickett believed the cartographers who drew the Vallard maps had wrongly aligned two Portuguese charts they were copying from.

It is commonly accepted that the FRENCH cartographers used maps and "portolan" charts acquired ILLEGALLY from Portugal and Portuguese vessels that had been captured, Trickett said.

"The original portolan maps would have been drawn on animal hide parchments, usually sheep or goat skin, of limited size," he explained.

"For a coastline the length of eastern Australia, some 3,500 kms, they would have been three to four charts."

"The Vallard cartographer has put these individual charts together like a jigsaw puzzle. Without clear compass markings its possible to join the southern chart in two different ways. My theory is it had been wrongly joined."

3/22/2007 12:54 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...

And Jobbed Incompetently by the French

3/22/2007 12:54 AM
Mr roT said...

I like the labels!

3/22/2007 6:03 PM

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