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An analysis of “Carta Pisana”, a navigational chart of the Middle Ages

We present a synsemic analysis of the medieval portolan chart “Carta Pisana”, a map for marine navigation. We talked about this visual artifact even in this post  (in italian).

You can find our visual analysis on Pdf:
https://synsemia.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/vitanova_2_cartapisana.pdf
and on Prezi:
http://prezi.com/bmtr5omnilij/carta-pisana/

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