La carte de Christophe Collomb livre ses secrets
A l’aide de l’imagerie multispectrale, des checheurs essayent de faire parler la carte que Christophe Collomb a utilisé pour préparer son voyage vers ce qu’il croyait être l’Inde en 1492.
▻http://www.wired.com/2014/09/martellus-map
Un peu de rêve.
Uncovering Hidden Text on a 500-Year-Old Map That Guided Columbus
The 1491 Martellus map (click to enlarge). Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 map was influenced by the earlier map by Martellus (click to enlarge). Library of Congress
Christopher Columbus probably used the map above as he planned his first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492. It represents much of what Europeans knew about geography on the verge discovering the New World, and it’s packed with text historians would love to read—if only the faded paint and five centuries of wear and tear hadn’t rendered most of it illegible.
But that’s about to change. A team of researchers is using a technique called multispectral imaging to uncover the hidden text. They scanned the map last month at Yale University and expect to start extracting readable text in the next few months, says Chet Van Duzer, an independent map scholar who’s leading the project, which was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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