title: The First Images of the Ob River on Western European Maps
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metadata.value: Kontev, Arkadii V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-03T18:42:41Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-11-03T18:42:41Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Kontev A. V. The First Images of the Ob River on Western European Maps. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 3, рp. 971–989.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.316
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33434
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Martin Waldseemüller’s maps, published in 1507 and 1513 in Strasbourg, are the first maps to
  bear the name of the new continent, America. They reveal the discovery of the New World by
  Spanish and Portuguese navigators. None of the researchers, however, have noticed that the
  same maps of North Asia (the area of present-day Western Siberia) for the first time show a
  river flowing into the Arctic Ocean. The peculiarity of Western European cartographic sources
  at the turn of the 15th–16th centuries lies in the fact that the reflection of the world picture was
  based on the tradition of the geographer Claudius Ptolemy. The desire to publish the “New
  Ptolemy” prompted the members of the Vosges Gymnasium, where Waldseemüller worked,
  to combine traditional knowledge of the world with the latest geographical discoveries. The
  article analyzes the content of Waldseemüller’s maps, provides a comparative analysis of the
  maps that formed the basis for the creation of these images, and traces the borrowings of
  data from the German cartographer by subsequent authors of the 16th century. As a result of
  careful study of inscriptions and legends, the author concludes that the depiction of areas of
  North Asia on the maps of the German cartographer dates back to the maps of Henry Martell
  of 1489–1491. A large map of the world by this author is kept at Yale University, but many of
  its inscriptions have faded or disappeared. The painstaking work of the American researcher
  Chet van Duzer, who published a monograph on the map in 2019, gave researchers the opportunity
  to examine the source carefully. The comparison between this map and an earlier
  round map of Fra Mauro of 1459 suggested that Martell, in his turn, borrowed the image of the
  North Asian river from this Venetian monk. Thus, the process of borrowing and clarifying the
  information about the previously unknown river is traced. At the end of the article, the author
  proves that European cartographers displayed the latest information about the Ob river, which
  came from Russia.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of cartography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Western European maps
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Western Siberia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ob
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ptolemy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The First Images of the Ob River on Western European Maps
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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