Nautical charts . latitudes it gave neither directions nordistances correctly. The difficulties of its use in nav-igation were early recognized, and nautical works con-tained chapters on sailing by the plain chart, and theuncertainties thereof. The example of early chart making shown in Fig. 2is of great interest as being the earliest extant chartwhich includes America. This chart was drawn onox-hide in 1500 by Juan de la Cosa, who accompaniedColumbus on his first voyage as master of his flagship,and on his second voyage as cartographer. The chart,of which only a portion is shown here, purport
Nautical charts . latitudes it gave neither directions nordistances correctly. The difficulties of its use in nav-igation were early recognized, and nautical works con-tained chapters on sailing by the plain chart, and theuncertainties thereof. The example of early chart making shown in Fig. 2is of great interest as being the earliest extant chartwhich includes America. This chart was drawn onox-hide in 1500 by Juan de la Cosa, who accompaniedColumbus on his first voyage as master of his flagship,and on his second voyage as cartographer. The chart,of which only a portion is shown here, purports tocover the entire world; it joins Asia and America as onecontinent, the Pacific Ocean being then still unknown. Gerhard Kramer, a Flemish map-maker, betterknown by his Latin name of Mercator, in 1569 pub-lished his famous Universal Map. In this map themeridians and parallels were still straight lines inter-secting at right angles, but the distances between theparallels were increased with increasing latitude in. FIG. 2. CHART CF NORTH ATLANTIC OC
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