Piri Reis's Kitab-ı Bahriye
Kitab-ı Bahriye de Piri Reis
- Date
- 1521 (versión ampliada, 1526) · confidence high
- Place
- Gallipoli (Gelibolu), Çanakkale, Turkey
- Credited to
- Piri Reis
- People
- 👤 Piri Reis1470–1554
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
A nautical book in verse and prose with over two hundred maps of ports, coasts and islands of the Mediterranean and descriptions of courses and anchorages. It is the most complete 16th-century Mediterranean pilot book.
What it led to
- Ottoman nautical mapping of the Mediterranean
- a pilot book for Ottoman navigators and diplomats