Re: The Vinland Map Find Or Fraud?

"hippo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "David B." wrote in message
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> > hippo wrote in message ...
> > >
> > >The cartographer must have been working with
> > >several extant maps made by others or from information supplied by
them
> > >since the Med. and N. Atlantic are fairly well done, but the
Norwegian
> > >coast, White Sea, and Baltic are not. I think it is a map made by
an
> > >Icelander tacked on to another of the 'known world'. It was clearly
not
> > made
> > >by a Swede, Norwegian, or Dane, or alone by someone from the
Med. -the
> > Troll
> >
> > As I have indicated, the Med and the Atlantic coast of the Old World
(and
> > almost every other aspect of the Old World coastline, with one very
very
> > interesting exception) can be shown to be directly copied from the
Andrea
> > Bianco mappa mundi of 1432-6, but with odd distortions for which I
canot
> > think of a medieval explanation- hence my questions on this ng. As
you
> have
> > noted elsewhere, the depiction of Greenland (as an island, contrary
to
> > medieval descriptions which have it joined to Eurasia by a barren
waste,
> > presumably the Polar ice-cap) has been observed to be worryingly
similar
> to
> > some modern maps- specifically as it appears on maps centered on the
North
> > Pole.
>
> If you will look at the scale of the embayment on the Vinland map with
the
> overall scale and latitudes it is pretty clear it only represents the
> southern end of Greenland with the whole drawn as an island probably
for the
> same reason N. America was drawn as one. -the Troll
>
>

Some people were still favouring a north east passage in 1553, so they
couldn't have thought Greenland was joined to Eurasia.
Sebastian Cabot who's search for the north west passage had come to
nothing at Baffin Island, was the first governor of the "Company of
Merchant Adventurers of England for the Discovery of Lands Unknown".
In May 1553 Sir Hugh Willoughby with Richard Chancellor as Chief Pilot
set out to sail Nor by East into the Barent Sea, then they hoped into a
channel around Muscovy that the geographers (Diabolical Doctor Dee, I
think) were predicting, then down the coast of China.
http://www.occultopedia.com/d/dee.htm

Jamie