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The Maps of Matrakçı Nasuh, Ottoman Polymath

44 points by Thevet 6y ago

1cvmask 5y ago
I just looked him up and it turns out he was also a soldier and a master bladesmith and he wrote a book on the usage of various weapons and infantry and cavalry fighting techniques.
mr-ron 5y ago
This site doesnt even come close to doing justice to the art in these images. Compare the last image presented, Istanbul, https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/the-maps-of-matrakci-nasuh-ottoman-polymath/33744759753_1fe8f5e395_o.jpg https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/the-m... To a detail image I found elsewhere: https://i.imgur.com/Iiyfgrn.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Iiyfgrn.jpg
- ZeroGravitas 5y ago
  The Public Domain review links through to their source, Wikipedia commons, which has high Res versions e.g. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Matrak%C3%A7%C4%B1_Nasuh#/media/File%3AMatrak%C3%A7%C4%B1_Nasuh_-_%C4%B0stanbul.jpg https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Matrak%C3%A7%C...
apoorvbadami 5y ago
interesting
doodlebugging 5y ago
In the fourth painting of the list you can see that he stylized three wolves in the mountain's features and in the fourth from the last (Istanbul) there appears to be a bear in the looking down at the deer grazing. Very nice work.
aliswe 5y ago
Dont forget Ibrahim Muteferrika, another (hungarian) ottoman cartograph. Also widely credited with inventing the arabic wordpress. Curiously, he was a christian priest of some kind (its not known which denomination he belonged to?), and he wrote a book called Risâle-i Islâmiyye where he quotes biblical verses in latin, transliterated to ottoman script, mentioning "Ahmedus" (Ahmad, the alternative name for the islamic prophet, with a latin suffix -us). I read the manuscript but did not have the skills to translate the ottoman-latin to something I could understand. I uploaded the manuscript I found in Istanbul to Picasa, but unfortunately those files seem to have gone lost when they shut down.
- 1cvmask 5y ago
  Were you there as part of some academic trip? Curious how they let you get hold of the manuscript to upload to Picasa.
  - aliswe 5y ago
    Im a total nobody, really. Never sat foot on a real university. I heard about the manuscript, saw it was in a library in istanbul, travelled there, went to the library, searched it up on their computer, and they gave me the manuscript on a CD for free.
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44 points by Thevet 6y ago

I just looked him up and it turns out he was also a soldier and a master bladesmith and he wrote a book on the usage of various weapons and infantry and cavalry fighting techniques.

mr-ron 5y ago

This site doesnt even come close to doing justice to the art in these images. Compare the last image presented, Istanbul, https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/the-maps-of-matrakci-nasuh-ottoman-polymath/33744759753_1fe8f5e395_o.jpg https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/the-m... To a detail image I found elsewhere: https://i.imgur.com/Iiyfgrn.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Iiyfgrn.jpg

ZeroGravitas 5y ago
The Public Domain review links through to their source, Wikipedia commons, which has high Res versions e.g. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Matrak%C3%A7%C4%B1_Nasuh#/media/File%3AMatrak%C3%A7%C4%B1_Nasuh_-_%C4%B0stanbul.jpg https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Matrak%C3%A7%C...

apoorvbadami 5y ago

interesting

doodlebugging 5y ago

In the fourth painting of the list you can see that he stylized three wolves in the mountain's features and in the fourth from the last (Istanbul) there appears to be a bear in the looking down at the deer grazing. Very nice work.

aliswe 5y ago

Dont forget Ibrahim Muteferrika, another (hungarian) ottoman cartograph. Also widely credited with inventing the arabic wordpress. Curiously, he was a christian priest of some kind (its not known which denomination he belonged to?), and he wrote a book called Risâle-i Islâmiyye where he quotes biblical verses in latin, transliterated to ottoman script, mentioning "Ahmedus" (Ahmad, the alternative name for the islamic prophet, with a latin suffix -us). I read the manuscript but did not have the skills to translate the ottoman-latin to something I could understand. I uploaded the manuscript I found in Istanbul to Picasa, but unfortunately those files seem to have gone lost when they shut down.

1cvmask 5y ago
Were you there as part of some academic trip? Curious how they let you get hold of the manuscript to upload to Picasa.
- aliswe 5y ago
  Im a total nobody, really. Never sat foot on a real university. I heard about the manuscript, saw it was in a library in istanbul, travelled there, went to the library, searched it up on their computer, and they gave me the manuscript on a CD for free.

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