Abstract
The French royal cosmographer André Thevet wrote many works, including Le Grand Insulaire et Pilotage. The second volume of this work (a navigation manual), prepared in manuscript form in 1586, describes the Croatian coast and islands and includes maps of Krk, Pag, Ugljan with Pašman, Čiovo, Brač, Hvar, and Korčula. These achievements are completely unknown in Croatian scientific literature. The subject of this paper is Thevet’s maps showing the Croatian islands. Their geographical content is compared to maps published in the second half of the 16th century in isolarios by Giovanni Francesco Camocio (1571), Antonio Millo (1582), and Giuseppe Rosaccio (1598). The study shows that Thevet’s maps were completely different from those produced by his contemporaries, especially in terms of the contours of island coastlines and depicted geographical features. Thevet’s maps were a reflection of the author’s personal competence, primarily his knowledge of geography and methods of spatial data collection, processing and cartographic visualisation, and are also a vivid testimony to French insight into the geography of the eastern Adriatic coast during the Renaissance.
Highlights
The first decades of the modern age coincided with the cultural epoch of the Renaissance, which was based on thediscovery of classical heritage, great geographical discoveries, and significant socio-economic progress; interwoven with the development of science, technology and the arts, all of which literally and symbolically widened European horizons. This was obvious in the development of geography and cartography, which had the task of systematising and representing a complex, multi-layered corpus of geographic discoveries, that could be used in different ways to manage spatial resources at the continental or global level, and enabled insights into the spatial reality of the known world
Smještaj karte / Location of map karta kao privitak na 33 r / Map appended to 33 r nema karte u rukopisu / No map karta kao privitak na 60 v / Map appended to 60 v nema karte u rukopisu / No map karta kao privitak na 68 v / Map appended to 68 karta kao privitak na 84 r / Map appended to 84 r nema karte u rukopisu / No map r – recto („prednja” strana lista, tj. desna stranica u otvorenoj knjizi pri čitanju s lijeva na desno) / r – recto
Thevet spent only a short time on the islands and could not carry out more detailed field observations, so while preparing the maps for his Le Grand Insulaire et Pilotage, he used maps by Venetian cartographers, published in isolarios printed in several editions during the second half of the 16th century, as templates
Summary
Francuski kraljevski kozmograf André Thevet napisao je mnoga djela među kojima i Le Grande Insulaire et Pilotage. Istraživanjem je utvrđeno da su Thevetove karte u pogledu izgleda obalne crte i prikazanih geografskih objekata posve različite od karata koje su izradili njegovi suvremenici. The French royal cosmographer André Thevet wrote many works, including Le Grand Insulaire et Pilotage. The second volume of this work (a navigation manual), prepared in manuscript form in 1586, describes the Croatian coast and islands and includes maps of Krk, Pag, Ugljan with Pašman, Čiovo, Brač, Hvar, and Korčula. These achievements are completely unknown in Croatian scientific literature. S obzirom na to da je svoja djela nastojao učiniti privlačnijim u odnosu na postojeća istovrsna djela (hodočasničke putopise, kozmografije i plovidbene priručnike), uz dragocjena osobna opažanja s putovanja, nekritički je vrlo nespretno kompilirao različite povijesne i geografske izvore želeći na taj način dokazati svoju upućenost, a
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