[HN Gopher] The Maps of Matrakci Nasuh, Ottoman Polymath
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       The Maps of Matrakci Nasuh, Ottoman Polymath
        
       Author : Thevet
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2021-04-29 06:48 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | doodlebugging wrote:
       | In the fourth painting of the list you can see that he stylized
       | three wolves in the mountain's features and in the fourth from
       | the last (Istanbul) there appears to be a bear in the looking
       | down at the deer grazing. Very nice work.
        
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       | aliswe wrote:
       | Dont forget Ibrahim Muteferrika, another (hungarian) ottoman
       | cartograph. Also widely credited with inventing the arabic
       | wordpress.
       | 
       | Curiously, he was a christian priest of some kind (its not known
       | which denomination he belonged to?), and he wrote a book called
       | Risale-i Islamiyye where he quotes biblical verses in latin,
       | transliterated to ottoman script, mentioning "Ahmedus" (Ahmad,
       | the alternative name for the islamic prophet, with a latin suffix
       | -us). I read the manuscript but did not have the skills to
       | translate the ottoman-latin to something I could understand.
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       | I uploaded the manuscript I found in Istanbul to Picasa, but
       | unfortunately those files seem to have gone lost when they shut
       | down.
        
       | mr-ron wrote:
       | This site doesnt even come close to doing justice to the art in
       | these images. Compare the last image presented, Istanbul,
       | 
       | https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/the-m...
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       | To a detail image I found elsewhere:
       | https://i.imgur.com/Iiyfgrn.jpg
        
         | ZeroGravitas wrote:
         | The Public Domain review links through to their source,
         | Wikipedia commons, which has high Res versions e.g.
         | 
         | https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Matrak%C3%A7%C...
        
       | apoorvbadami wrote:
       | interesting
        
       | 1cvmask wrote:
       | I just looked him up and it turns out he was also a soldier and a
       | master bladesmith and he wrote a book on the usage of various
       | weapons and infantry and cavalry fighting techniques.
        
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