Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Pedro Reinel 1504.jpg

Pedro Reinel chart (c. 1504)

Original - The chart of Pedro Reinel (c. 1504) is one of the oldest known nautical charts with a scale of latitudes and constructed on the basis of astronomical observations. This new cartographic model was developped by the Portuguese in the second half of the 15th century and it is known as the "plane chart" or "latitude chart".

Reason

Good quality depiction of a very important historical document, of a kind poorly represented in Wikipedia

Articles this image appears in

Pedro Reinel, History of cartography

Creator

Joaquim Alves Gaspar

• Support as nominator --Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:52, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
• Two questions: could this be added to History of cartography or Map or a similar article? It's a good picture. Also, why is part of it missing? Did it burn or something? I had to ask :) Intothewoods29 (talk) 06:27, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Answer - It was added to History of cartography. Only a small fragment in the left lower side is missing from the animal skin, hiding part of the authors name, "Pedro". -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 08:20, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
• Comment Seems to be underexposed... --Abdominator (talk) 03:23, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
• Info - I don't think so. This is a professional work and the original picture (from which the present one was downsampled)contains callibration colour stripes (please see here). Anyway this brownish tone is usual in very old parchments and the chart details are not affected by it. Finally, please remember that the technical merits of the photograph are not the main issue here. The EV is. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 17:27, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
  • With all due respect, technical merits do matter, sometimes more than EV, if the EV is okay but the technical situation is horrible. --Golbez (talk) 01:07, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
• Support - This is probably the first FPC that I've spent significant time looking at all the fascinating details. The details of the map are so interesting. Really interesting pic. I guess I should have realized that it was on animal skin. :) Intothewoods29 (talk) 20:09, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
• Support encyclopedic one + has good res. M.K. (talk) 14:41, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Sufficient quality, high EV. Mostlyharmless (talk) 06:12, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
• Support Quite interesting and informative. Spencer^T♦C 20:30, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
• Support. --Golbez (talk) 00:22, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
• Weak Support The only map so far that made me want to zoom in and look at it. I am generally against maps being featured pictures, but there is something different about this one. I was, however, a little disappointed once I did zoom in, however. LCpl Stephen Bolin, USMC (talk) 05:50, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Pedro Reinel 1504.jpg MER-C 06:53, 23 October 2008 (UTC)