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Armenia in Maps

Armenia Out of Maps

Table of Maps

Book I: History of Cartography

• Chapter 1:Introduction
• Meaning of Maps.
• Maps Identifications.
• Early maps.
• Mappaemundi.

Chapter 2: Medieval Maps.

• Portolan Charts.
• Marine Charts.
• Fourteenth Century maps.
• T- O Maps.
• Paradise in T-O Maps.
• Medieval maps.
• Ranulf Haldingham.

Chapter 3: Ark of Noah.

• The Creation begins in Armenia.
• Robert Charroux.
• Ark of Noah in maps.
• H. Ainsworth and Ararat.
• Nicola of Damascus.
• William of Rubruck (1222-1295).
• Vincent of Beausais.
• Faustus of Byzance.
• Marco Polo & Ararat.
• Nicolas de Nicolay .
• Fraya Stark.
• Mappping Ararat.
• George Sale.
• Sebastian Munster.
• Handrik van Loon.
• First person have seen the Ark.
• Last People reached the Ark.

Chapter 4: Garden of Eden.

• Place of Garden of Eden.
• On the Mountains of Armenia.
• Garden of Eden in Ancient Armenia.
• David Rohl Theories.
• Tree of Life.
• Supposed Garden of Eden in Israel.
• Holy of Holies.
• Craddle of Civilization.
• Kircher's Garden of Eden.

Chapter 5: Greek Cartography.

• Thales of Milesius (624-647).
• Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276-194 BC).
• Pytheas (Greek Navigator).
• Hippalus.
• Herodotus the Historian.
• Herodotus Description of Armenia.
• Aristotle Suggestion of the Earth.

Chapter 6: Roman Cartography.

• Orbis Terrarum.
• Roman Cartography.
• Pomponius Melae.
• Marcus Agrippa (64-12 BC).
• Claudius Ptolemy I (90-168 A.D).
• Astrolab invented by Ptolemy.
• Geographike Hyphegesis.
• Ptolemy's work.

Chapter 7: Christian Mapmakers.

• Ambrosius Macrobius (6th Century).
• Cosmas (6th Century).
• Cosmas Christian Topography (535-547).
• Isidore of Seville (570-636).
• Isidor of Seville works.

Chapter 8: European Travelers.

• Giovanni di Piano Carpini (1182-1252).
• Marco Polo (1254-1324).
• Discription of Lesser Armenia by Marco Polo.
• Francesco Balduccio Pegolotti (`1310-1347).

Chapter 9: Age of Discovery.

• Pierre d'Ailly (1350-1420).
• Compendiums Cosmographiae.
• Ymago Mundi.
• Nicola Copernicus (1473-1543).
• Jodocus Hondius 1563-1612.
• Jodocus Hondius II
• Henricus Hondius 1597-1651.

Chapter 10: European Navigators.

• Navigators Experiences in Maps.
• Henry the Navigator (1394-1460).
• Bartolomeu Dias (1450-1500).
• Christopher Columbus (1451-1506).
• Americi Vespvcci (1454-1512).
• Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521).
• Vasco da Gamma (1469-1524).
• Jacques Cartier (1491 - 1557).
• Samuel de Champlain (1567 - 1635).
• James Cook (1728-1779).

Chapter 11: Renaissance Maps.

• Fra Mauro.
• Abraham Cresques.
• Catalan Atlas.
• Martin Waldseemuller (1470-1521).
• Martin Behaim (1459-1507).
• Sebastian Munster (1489-1552).
• Munster's Cosmographia.
• Heinrich Petri.
• Diego Ribero.
• Nicola Copernicus (1473-1543).
• Petrus Bertius (1565-1629).
• Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1671-1638).
• Joan Blaeu, son (1599-1673).
• Peter Van der Aa (1659-1733).

Chapter 12: Atlas Makers.

• Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594).
• Mercator World Charts and Maps.
• Mercator First Atlas.
• Mercator projection.
• Edward Wright (1558-1615).
• Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598).
• Athanase Kircher (1602-1680).
• Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726).
• Allain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706).
• Jean Dominique Cassini (1625-1712).
• Jacque Cassini (1677-1736).