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Piri Reis
Chuck Gould wrote:
On Aug 2, 9:48?am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote: Chuck Gould wrote: On Aug 1, 4:01?am, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:13:23 -0700, Chuck Gould wrote: What a hot topic for rec.boats, 2007. A 15th Century Turkish navigator produced a map that accurately depicted not only the not-yet officially "discovered" Atlantic coastlines of North and South America, but also the Antarctic continent in an ice- free state that last existed about 6000 years ago. Piri Reis claimed that some of the source material for his map came from the libraries of Alexander the Great, dating those documents to a time about 1800 years before Columbus sailed to the West Indies. http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_1.htm Oh good lord, not this again. I think I'll just let this thread die - as quickly as possible. Besides, the Vikings discovered everything anyway long before any other groups - including Idaho. You scoff at Piri Reis? Has this somehow been shown to be fraudulent, or do you disbelieve because it seems more comfortable to do so? You're a student of history, Tom. You might enjoy a book I'm now reading, "1491". Just in the last 30-40 years there have been some amazing discoveries in anthropology and archeology that debunk a lot of what we learned as kids in school. Some of these discoveries have occurred as Amazon rain forests have been burned away, revealing enormous areas of cultivated land, building sites in Peru (for example) capable of housing populations many times larger than ever officially thought to have existed there. Knowledge isn't stagnant. The state of the art "knowledge" from just a generation ago is almost obsolete today. Doesn't mean that every new thing that comes along is true, of course, but we should consider the possibility and examine things carefully because some of the new things will indeed prove to be valid. Chuck, I had never heard about the map before, but i did find a web site from the University of Wis. that seemed to provide a realistic review of the map. http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/PiriRies.HTM- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - There's a class of crank that hates the idea that other people might have real accomplishments, because they never accomplish anything themselves. An entire quote devoted to Reggie Retardo! |
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