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THE SUPPOSED 1544 CABOT CHART; THE SANCHO GUTIERREZ 1551 SIMILAR CHART AND THEIR ANOMALIES.
ABSTRACT
Two very differently presented planispheres with a basically similar world format and containing copious texts as well as additional side pieces. The texts are in all probability copied from another source and are not by the cartographers. A major problem is that Sebastian Cabot did not draw the chart which bears his name, it is an engraving of a chart thus earlier than the 1544 date which appears on the chart. The format is surprising in that it is only one of a very few charts of such a size to be drawn as an oblate spheroid which as will be shown presented very many problems for the engraver. It is also visually perturbing in that the deformation of the continents is so very obvious. The Sancho Gutierrez planisphere is however a more normal rendition of a chart, that is it is four square, equal degrees and follows the original Portolan charts basic methodology. Both charts feature a very special cartouche of an Eagle which is a link to other charts and atlases being drawn in that period.
Having read various texts concerning these two planispheres and being of the opinion that the idea they were somehow copies was rather spurious and thus it became necessary to investigate them both and quantify their contents. One text however, mentioned at the end of this text will provide the details omitted here-in. This is a text about the cartography there-on.
The text contains 8, A4 pages and 12, A3 diagrams
May 2023
THE SERPENT MOUND (1) AND THE NEWARK EARTHWORKS (2)
ABSTRACT
These are two of the most enigmatic sites in the State of Ohio, USA. There are near thousands of earthworks, large and small in Ohio, but, for sheer scale these outshine the others.
The essence of this paper is to determine just how they were set on the ground, their metrological being and thus their raison d’etre.
Although having read many other papers, and there are hundreds, I have mostly ignored previous texts, although taken advantage of some survey data and photos for the sake of time saving in the research, and that is, as in previous papers, the use of LiDAR photos which would not other-wise be available. Thus it is an attempt to determine just where the origins of their skills emanated from unless of course they are homegrown by the savants of these tribes.
This is a narrative description paper, not necessarily a full Academic type.
It is the third of a series of three texts, similar in research following the metrology and Mound Building skills from the earliest known examples.
The texts preceding this one are; Ms5; From Mesopotamia via Europe to Mesoamerica and the Mississippi.; MsMO/9; The Mound Builders, Bolivia to Ohio.
The text is 06, A4 pages and contains 13, A3 diagrams for the first section. (19 parts)
The text is 08, A4 pages and contains 32, A3 diagrams for the second section. (29 parts)
April 2025
