Re: [MapHist] Piri Reis

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:44:36 -0700 

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Fortunately the wingnut’s publisher did not have the brilliance to rent the RGS lecture room for a publication lecture, and hence make it seem like the RGS was supporting the book. We all know what happens when a publisher abuses the RGS’s authority - America was discovered in 1421- and so said the RGS? No No they did not. as Francis Herbert often has argued until he is purple in the face. But it was a good ploy by the publisher. Ahh - implied authority is it not a wonderful thing.

 

George Carhart




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From: Dee Longenbaugh
Sent: Sep 1, 2009 12:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [MapHist] Piri Reis

When IMCos met in Istanbul, a Greek admiral gave an excellent paper on the Piri Reis map that I thought would lay the controversy to rest. Ha! Wingnuts will be wingnuts.
Must say your review made me want to read the book. A good laugh now and then is excellent.
Dee,
smiling already
On Aug 31, 2009, at 7:36 AM, Barbara McCorkle wrote:

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Browsing the New Books shelves at our local public library, I couldn't resist one with the title "The Puzzle of Piri Reis".  Some of the workings of this mystery story were okay, not great, but  the writer knows absolutely nothing about maps, must have read something about the Piri Reis map and simply took off from there.  You have to read it to believe how bad his treatment of old maps is.   His victim bought a Piri Reis map.  Wow!  The author gives it a value of one to two million.  Hah!  The  author seems to think of the map only as an art work, thinks an art museum would want it, never mentions anything about cartographic history, map dealers, map collectors, map collections.  The one book the map owner prized is "Encyclopedia of Ancient Phoenician Maps".  I can't help but wonder if the publisher, Avalon Books, employs an editor?
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