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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Persian vs. Arabian Gulf: early maps?
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:54:10 -0800
From: Fatemah Van Buren <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Hello Ken,
The body of water between Iran and Arabian Peninsula is called Persian
Gulf, (Sinus Perficus; shown in the following 2 records in Latin, in the
early maps of Middle East that I have (ca. 1662+).
**ME: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638.
TI: Asia noviter delineata / Auctore Guiljelmo Blaeuw
IM: New York : Penn Prints, [196-?]
CO: 1 map : col. ; 30 x 38 cm
SC: Scale [ca. 1:34,000,000]
"Map of Asia by the famous Bleau Family, 1662."
**ME: Langren, Henricus
TI: Tabula situs paradisi terrestris / Henricus F. ab Langren, sculpsit
IM: [New York] : A[rt] F[air, 195-?]
CO: 1 map : col. ; 32 x 44 cm
SC: Scale [ca. 1:15,000,000]
Facsimile of ed publ.:$c1698.
* Your patron can also contact the 2 Faculty members at Near Eastern
Studies at UCB who are expert in political, academic and geographical
aspects of this topic.
Professor Martin Schwarts [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
and Professor David Stronack stronach
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> @socrates.berkeley.edu
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Please let me know if you want the maps in digital format.
Fatemah Van Buren
Head, Earth Sciences and Map Library
University of California, Berkeley
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/
At 06:25 AM 12/15/2006, you wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Persian vs. Arabian Gulf: early maps?
> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:47:10 -0700
> From: Ken Rockwell <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> Hello, all:
>
> I have a patron who is interested in the longstanding debate in the
> Middle East as to what to call the gulf between Iran and the Arabian
> Peninsula; you're probably familiar with it. He'd like to find examples
> of early maps (including non-Western) that portray and name the water
> body. I haven't found any non-Western maps in my historical atlases,
> nor at David Rumsey's site. Does anyone know of any good examples, esp.
> Middle-East produced? The earlier the better...
>
> Thanks...
>
> --Ken Rockwell
> Univ. of Utah
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