World map
Date
1732
Creator
Ahmed al-Kirimi (Ottoman-Turkish) , Engraver
After
Katip Çelebi (كاتب جلبي) (1609 - 1657, Ottoman-Turkish) , Scholar
Object type
Material
Technique
Subject
Content object
Description
Two projections of the globe: one showing the Western hemisphere and Pacific Ocean, from New Zealand to the Americas [left as viewed], and the other showing the Eastern hemisphere and Atlantic, Southern and Indian Oceans, from Africa to Australia [right].
Unnumbered plate from Jihannuma (loosely translated as Displaying the World) by Katip Çelebi (ed. by Ibrahim Müteferrika, Constantinople, 1732).
Katip Çelebi (كاتب جلبي), or Ḥājjī Khalīfa (حاجي خليفة) (1609-1657) was an Ottoman-Turkish scholar, historian and geographer.
Jihannuma is a world atlas containing maps of earth and the stars. It strove to offer proofs that the earth was round, arguing against the widespread view in the Islamic world at the time, which claimed that the earth was flat.
Unnumbered plate from Jihannuma (loosely translated as Displaying the World) by Katip Çelebi (ed. by Ibrahim Müteferrika, Constantinople, 1732).
Katip Çelebi (كاتب جلبي), or Ḥājjī Khalīfa (حاجي خليفة) (1609-1657) was an Ottoman-Turkish scholar, historian and geographer.
Jihannuma is a world atlas containing maps of earth and the stars. It strove to offer proofs that the earth was round, arguing against the widespread view in the Islamic world at the time, which claimed that the earth was flat.
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