Last Friday, Ricardo Vaz and Ana Nunes participated at the SciCom2021 Conference (23-25 June) on Science Communication in Portugal, under the thematic "Guided Tour" with a tour to the Medea-Chart Database and brainstorming on possible future initiatives to extend this research tool to the wider public. Interesting ideas came out from this experience and we are extremely happy with the challenge to present a humanities project at this meeting to an audience of science communic

Author | Autor Zuane Pizzigano Date | Data 1424 Country | País Venice Archive | Arquivo John Ford Bell Library Call number | Número de Catálogo 1424mPi Dimensions | Dimensões 570 x 880 mm Medea-Chart DB Entry | Entrada na BD Medea-Chart The Pizzigano Chart, signed by Venetian cartographer Zuane Pizzigano and dated 1424, is the earliest known nautical chart focusing singularly upon the Atlantic Ocean rather than the Mediterranean Sea. Nothing is shown east of Barcelona (barzal

Author| Autor anonymous [Jaume Olives] Date | Data 1550-1560 Country | País [Spain] Archive | Arquivo Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Castelo de Vide (conserved in Torre do Tombo, Lisboa) Call number | Número de Catálogo ca-PT-SCMCV Medea DB Entry | Entrada Medea DB Two fragments of a richly decorated manuscript portolan chart are preserved in the National Archives of Torre do Tombo, in Lisbon, representing the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, separated by a missing narrow vert