EDUKATIF | Oronteus Finaeus artist actually a regular map. But the work done Topografer France was still a great mystery. Why ...?
In the year 1532, Oronteus Finaeus draw a map of the world. Not a problem if the maps just drawn around the Continent of Europe, Africa, Asia, and some Americans, but which becomes remarkable is that the continent Oronteus Finaeus describes the six - the Antarctica (South Pole) ...! Yet no one had ever sailed to the Antarctic ...!
And the more amazing again, the coast line on the map produced by the Antarctic Finaeus - turned out exactly like the map of modern Antarctica today ...! Of course this is a remarkable, because the continent of Antarctica is covered with thick perennial ice cover 2 Kilometers ...
Where Finaeus know all that ...? That's the mystery of unsolved to this day.
I was eventually attracted to a little strip ... ..
Who Oronteus Finaeus?
Oronce Fine, Orotius Finaeus, Oronteus Finaeus (1494-1555)
Fine Oronce his clan's name, was born in Briançon in 1494 and grew up in Paris. He had curled up in prison in 1518. Although he himself was a mathematician, but in the year 1522 still get a medical degree from the University of Navarre in Paris.
Year 1524, he entered once again in prison and in the same year he made a sundial of ivory remaining ingredients. In the 16th century, many people like the works of mathematicians. Fine Oronteus eventually became an expert in fortification and defense employed Castle Milan-Italy.
In 1531, he received an honorary degree at the Collège Royal Paris. At the same time climbing career by writing many scientific papers. It works that had published a.l:
1. Astrology treatises and instruments of celestial sphere. In the year 1520, it was he who suggested that the eclipse of the moon can be used to determine the longitude of a place.
2. Discover 1519 years of map projections and then produce a map of the world we currently use.
3. In the year 1544, calculate the value of pi (22:7) = (22 2 / 9) / 7, and then corrected to 47/15. He believes that the earth was the center of the universe.
Map ...
Figure 1 - Map Oronteus Finaeus tahun1532 in the southern hemisphere Fig. 2 - draw back Oronteus Finaeus modern projections that the polar map
Figure 3 - Map of Antarctica modern
This map was found in the library Congress, Washington, DC in 1960 by Charles Hapgood. Marked "drawn by Oronteus Finaeus year 1531". Almost exactly with the Piri Reis map, Antarctica, indicated by ice that is free flowing like a river, drainage patterns and Coastline.
Map Oronteus Finaeus more accurate than the other maps at that time. In fact, more accurate than any maps made up to the year 1800.
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