Life and Works of Piri Reis

Series VII - Number 69(a1)

88 pp + 60 b/w plates, in English, pb.

Preface

I- THE ESTABLISHMENT AND EXPANSION OF THE TURKISH-OTTOMAN EMPIRE

• The Territorial and Marine Dominance of the Turkish-Ottoman Empire in the XVIth Century
• The Discovery of America (Mundus Novus)

II- LIFE AND WORKS OF PIRI REIS

• Biography of Piri Reis (1470 - 1554)
• The Book of Bahriye ( = On Navigation)
• America on the first world map of Piri Reis (1531)
• The second world map of Piri Reis (1528)
• A comparison of the maps of Piri Reis with the maps of the XVIth century and with older maps

III- CONCLUSION

• The illustrated lectures that I delivered in Geneva (9.I.1937) and in Ankara (1937) on Piri Reis with the maps ofthe XVIth century and with older maps
• The Manuscript Editions of Bahriye
• Bibliography
• A list of some of the latters that were written to me directly to the National Library and to the Turkish Historical Association
• A Sugestion
• Aktion has been taken about my two proposals
• Index
• Pictures and Maps