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Majorcan cosmographers and cartographers developed breakthroughs in cartographic techniques, namely the " normal portolan chart ", which was fine-tuned for navigational use and the plotting by compass of navigational routes, prerequisites for the discovery of the New World.
In 1339 Angelino Dulcert of Majorca produced the portolan chart map.
Nautical charts identified an island called " Bracile " west of Ireland in the Atlantic Ocean as far back as 1325, in a portolan chart by Angelino Dulcert.
The island makes its first explicit appearance as a large rectangular island in the 1424 portolan chart of Zuane Pizzigano.
Antillia makes its first unambiguous appearance in the 1424 portolan chart of Venetian cartographer Zuane Pizzigano, as part of a group of four islands, lying far in the Atlantic Ocean some 250 leagues west of Portugal, and 200 leagues west of the Azores archipelago ( which also usually depicted in contemporary charts ).
Japanese Portolan chart | portolan sailing map, depicting the Indian Ocean and the East Asian coast, early 17th century.

portolan and map
The Fra Mauro map is unusual, but typical of Fra Mauro's portolan charts, in that its orientation is with the south at the top, one of the usual conventions of Muslim maps, in contrast with the Ptolemy map which has the north at the top.
Usodimare's letter, written in garbled Latin, was discovered around 1800 in a manuscript by Giacomo ( Jacob ) Gråberg, a Swedish merchant resident in Genoa, in the archives of the city, as part of one of three documents assembled by a 15th C. Genoese cartographer ( possibly Barthelemi Pareto ) as elements to guide the construction of a new portolan map.

chart and map
Topographic map | Topographical and Bathymetric chart | bathymetric map
( 1957, 1970, 2001, 2007 ) The Heavens ( 1970 ), Cartographic Division of the National Geographic Society ( NGS ), Washington, D. C., U. S. A., two sided large map chart depicting the constellations of the heavens ; as special supplement to the August 1970 issue of National Geographic.
* Old map: Manuscript chart of the North Sea, VOC, ca. 1690 ( high resolution zoomable scan )
In March al-Hazmi received a shipment of VHS videos including videos about Boeing 747 and 777 flight decks and “ how an airline captain should look and act " and later a road atlas, map of NYC and a World aeronautical chart.
* Linear scale, a means of showing the scale of a map, chart, or drawing
To define the vector space operations on T < sub > x </ sub > M, we use a chart φ: U → R < sup > n </ sup > and define the map ( dφ )< sub > x </ sub >: T < sub > x </ sub > M → R < sup > n </ sup > by ( dφ )< sub > x </ sub >( γ '( 0 )) = ( φ ∘ γ )'( 0 ).
") Other commonly used names for the horoscope in English include astrological chart, astro-chart, celestial map, sky-map, star-chart, cosmogram, vitasphere, radical chart, radix, chart wheel, or simply chart.
The word image is also used in the broader sense of any two-dimensional figure such as a map, a graph, a pie chart, or an abstract painting.
A map of intensity contours is called an isodynamic chart.
An isoclinic chart ( map of inclination contours ) for the Earth's magnetic field is shown on the right.
An isogonic chart ( map of declination contours ) for the Earth's magnetic field is shown on the left.
Joseph DesBarre's chart of New York harbor in the 1779 work Atlantic Neptune, and John Eddy's map of 1811, both use the modern spelling.
Atlas is a chart / map support for FlightGear ; Kelpie Flight Planner is a Java based flight planner for FlightGear.
The map carrying the structure of the complex plane to the Riemann surface is called a chart.
The map f ( z ) = z ( the identity map ) defines a chart for C, and
* See an 1858 map Preliminary chart of entrance to Brazos River, Texas / from a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A. Bache ; triangulation by J. S.
In most cases, as the map shows, this will move it into higher efficiency areas on the left as the smaller blower likely will have been running fast on the right of the chart.
Depending on the scale of the chart, it may show depths of water and heights of land ( topographic map ), natural features of the seabed, details of the coastline, navigational hazards, locations of natural and human-made aids to navigation, information on tides and currents, local details of the Earth's magnetic field, and human-made structures such as harbours, buildings, and bridges.
Positions of places shown on the chart can be measured from the longitude and latitude scales on the borders of the chart, relative to a map datum such as WGS 84.

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Each diagram is accompanied by a `` dog chart '', a list of the levers that show which other levers any particular lever will lock if pulled.
And along Chicago's West Jackson Boulevard, La Salle Street, and around the Merchandise Mart Plaza there sit men who chart crop reports, who divide the number of reported lady-bugs by the number of reported green-bugs, and the number of hogs by the amount of corn.
While a number of interesting celestial objects are readily identified by the naked eye, sometimes with the aid of a star chart, many others are so faint or inconspicuous that technical means are necessary to locate them.
A prototypical example of an algorithm is Euclid's algorithm to determine the maximum common divisor of two integers ; an example ( there are others ) is described by the flow chart above and as an example in a later section.
Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.
The Shawn Carlson's double-blind chart matching tests, in which 28 astrologers agreed to match over 100 natal charts to psychological profiles generated by the California Psychological Inventory ( CPI ) test, is one of the most renowned tests of astrology.
A civil aviation chart published by the Nevada Department of Transportation shows a large restricted area, but defines it as part of the Nellis restricted airspace.
Jokes, riddles, apercus, and revelations will surface for years, but let those who chart their lives by Dylan's cockeyed parables tease out the details.
This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Brunei Darussalam at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of Bruneian Dollars.
This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Burkina Faso at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of CFA Francs.
BAO recently achieved a new record in Sweden on the Svensktoppen chart by staying there for 243 weeks with the song Du är min man (" You Are My Man "), sung by Helen Sjöholm.
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.
Its trade deficit has been increasing at a large rate since 1997 ( See chart ) and increased by 49. 8 billion dollars between 2005 and 2006, setting a record high of 817. 3 billion dollars, up from 767. 5 billion dollars the previous year.
This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Chad at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of CFA Francs.
This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Cameroon at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of Central African CFA Francs.
This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Djibouti at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of Djiboutian francs.
The following chart compares the current editions of the Doctrine and Covenants used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS ed.
By 1970, both Parton and Wagoner had grown frustrated by her lack of solo chart success, and Porter had her record Jimmie Rodgers ' " Mule Skinner Blues ", a gimmick that worked.
Other chart hits during this period included Parton's chart-topping cover of the 1969 First Edition hit " But You Know I Love You " and " The House of the Rising Sun " ( both 1981 ), " Single Women ", " Heartbreak Express " and " Hard Candy Christmas " ( 1982 ) and 1983's " Potential New Boyfriend ", which was accompanied by one of Parton's first music videos, and which also reached the U. S. dance charts.
The album, which would remain in the chart for two years, was soon joined there by the six-month-old Hunky Dory.
Featuring characters from a short story written by Bowie, the album achieved US and UK chart success, and yielded three top 40 UK singles.
Other songs written by McLean for the album included “ Dreidel ” ( number 21 on the Billboard chart ) and “ If We Try ” ( number 58 ), which was subsequently recorded by Olivia Newton-John.

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