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This scholar Angelo Cattaneo is wonderful, and he is famous in Maphist for his intelligent questions (since the first ones that he made, the first time that he had an intervention, many years ago...). The Portuguese (with their lots of public money...) invented him... gave him his PhD... and paid him (for so many years now...) to have him shown as a substitute of the Portuguese historian of Cartography, Alfredo Pinheiro Marques, the author of the "Adenda" to "Portvgaliae Monvmenta Cartographica", against whom they are doing what they are doing, in his own country, for so many years now...), but until today -- for so many years now...! -- this excellent scholar, this true expert of Portuguese things, this Italian Mr. Angelo Cattaneo, is not yet able to understand the meaning of the most obvious things in Portuguese language... Now he does not understand (and he asks Maphist for...) the meaning of the Portuguese expression "mapamundo em vidro grande" referring to the map that the Jesuits were sending in 1554 to the Japanese daimyo of Bungo (Oita)... He thinks that it was a map MADE OF glass... Very funny... Portuguese (Italian) scholarship... At 2011/11/24, 11:22, Angelo Cattaneo wrote: > This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the > whole list) > o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + > > Dear Colleagues, > > While looking at a Portuguese1554 inventory listing objects to be dispatched > to Japan from Goa, I found a reference to a "mapamundo em vidro grande" . > > It is not simple to translate this reference. It could be "a big > [terrestrial] globe made of glass [crystal]". > Of course, it is possible to provide other interpretations. > > I do not know of any other reference to these kind of objects, apart from the > famous crystal [celestial] sphere made by Mercator for Charles V (the > terrestrial one was made of wood). > > Does anybody know any such reference? Is there any such "big [terrestrial] > globe made of glass / crystal" or "big [terrestrial] map made of glass / > crystal" extant in either public or private collections? > > Thanks and my best, > Angelo Cattaneo > _______________________________________________ > MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography > hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. > The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of > the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of > Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for > the views of the author. > List Information: http://www.maphist.nl > > Maphist mailing list > Maphist@geo.uu.nl > http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
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