The Zeno map is a map of the North Atlantic first published in 1558 in Venice by Nicolo Zeno, a descendant of Nicolo Zeno, of the Zeno brothers.
The younger Zeno published the map, along with a series of letters, claiming he had discovered them in a storeroom in his family's home in Venice. According to Zeno, the map and letters date from around the year 1400 and purportedly describe a long voyage made by the Zeno brothers in the 1390s under the direction of a prince named Zichmni.[1] The voyage supposedly traversed the North Atlantic and, according to some interpretations, reached North America.
Most historians regard the map and accompanying narrative as a hoax,[2] perpetrated by the younger Zeno to make a retroactive claim for Venice as having discovered the New World before Christopher Columbus.
The evidence against the authenticity of the map is based largely on the appearance of many non-existent islands in the North Atlantic and off the coast of Iceland.[3] [4] One of these non-existent islands was Frisland, where the Zeno brothers allegedly spent some time.
Current scholarship regards the map as being based on existing maps of the 16th century, in particular:
- The Olaus Magnus map of the North, the Carta marina
- The Caerte van Oostland of Cornelis Anthoniszoon
- Claudius Clavus-type maps of the North
References [link]
- ^ Wright, Helen Saunders (1910). The great white North: the story of polar exploration from the earliest times to the discovery of the Pole. The Macmillan co.. pp. 8. https://books.google.com/books?id=ieG_CFj7OLIC&dq=helen+wright+great+white+north. Supporters of the Henry Sinclair legend suggest that Zichmini is a mistranscription of d'Orkney.
- ^ https://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=592
- ^ Lainema, Matti; Juha Nurminen (2009). A History of Arctic Exploration: Discovery, Adventure and Endurance at the Top of the World. Conway. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-84486-069-2. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IkvmKuIKJeMC&pg=PA101&dq=Zeno+non-existent++islands&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Tx8QT-fDBYHIhAfCmeWdAg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Zeno%20non-existent%20%20islands&f=false.
- ^ Mills, William James (2003). Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 247. ISBN [[Special:BookSources/781576074220|781576074220]]. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PYdBH4dOOM4C&pg=PA247&dq=Zeno+non-existent++islands&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Tx8QT-fDBYHIhAfCmeWdAg&ved=0CGYQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Zeno%20non-existent%20%20islands&f=false.
Further reading [link]
- Cooper, Robert L. D. (Ed.) The Voyages of the Venetian Brothers Nicolo & Antonio Zeno to the Northern Seas in the XIVth Century. Masonic Publishing Co. 2004. ISBN 0-9544268-2-7.
https://wn.com/Zeno_map
Map (band)
Map is an indie pop band from Riverside, CA that consists of Josh Dooley (guitar, Voice, Harmonica), Paul Akers (Keyboards) and Trevor Monks (drums).
Biography
Josh Dooley formed Map in 2000, recording two EPs, Teaching Turtles to Fly, and Eastern Skies, Western Eyes.
Map released their first full length record, Secrets By The Highway, in 2003.
In the summer of 2004, Map released their second full length record, Think Like An Owner. This album was his first record backed by his current band line-up, consisting of Loop (bass), Heather Bray (guitar, voice) and Ben Heywood (drums).
Map released their third EP, San Francisco in the 90s, with more additions to their band line-up, consisting of Paul Akers (keyboards) and Trevor Monks (drums). This album gives tribute to late-80s Brit pop and mid-60s American jangle rock.
Discography
Full-length albums
Map (disambiguation)
A map is a symbolic visual representation of an area.
Map or MAP may also refer to:
Computers
Mathematics and programming
- Map (C++), an implementation in the C++ language
Medicine and biology
Map (butterfly)
The map (Araschnia levana) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is common throughout the lowlands of central and eastern Europe, and is expanding its range in Western Europe.
In the UK this species is a very rare vagrant, but there have also been several unsuccessful – and now illegal – attempts at introducing this species over the past 100 years or so: in the Wye Valley in 1912, the Wyre Forest in the 1920s, South Devon 1942, Worcester 1960s, Cheshire 1970s, South Midlands 1990s. All these introductions failed and eggs or larvae have never been recorded in the wild in the UK. (Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 it is now illegal to release a non-native species into the wild.)
The map is unusual in that its two annual broods look very different. The summer brood are black with white markings, looking like a miniature version of the white admiral and lacking most of the orange of the pictured spring brood.
The eggs are laid in long strings, one on top of the other, on the underside of stinging nettles, the larval foodplant. It is thought that these strings of eggs mimic the flowers of the nettles, thereby evading predators. The larvae feed gregariously and hibernate as pupae.
Zeno (bishop of Mérida)
Zeno, a Greek, was the Bishop of Mérida in the late fifth century. Though he had traditionally been ascribed the see of Seville, it has now been shown that he was in fact metropolitan of Lusitania and thus bishop of the provincial capital of Mérida. The dates of his episcopate are unknown besides the date of 483 and the fact of a surviving letter from Pope Felix III (483–492).
Pope Simplicius was so impressed by his administration of his diocese that he desired to install him as papal vicar in southern Spain and strengthen his position there. It is possible that Simplicius was responding to the conquests of the Suevi in Lusitania. Several diocese had been lost to the barbarians and the pope's letter refers vaguely to the terminos (boundaries) of the Apostles. The provincial boundaries of Lusitania may have been under consideration and Simplicius may have wished to augment Zeno's authority to deal with the Suevi.
According to an inscription dated to 483 and surviving in a ninth-century copy, Zeno and Salla, a Gothic official, repaired the walls of Mérida and the bridge over the Guadiana there.
Zeno (surname)
Zeno is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Zeno (film)
'Zeno' is a twenty-minute period drama produced by Masina Productions. It was written and directed by New Zealand cinematographer and AFTRS graduate Peter Panoa. The film was shot in Campbelltown, New South Wales over the course of four days in October 2008 and released the following year. The main actors that feature in the film are Ivan J. Sumelj, Mary Doumith, Frederick Winterstein, Doris A. Vai, Simon Menzies and Farnaz Fanaian.
Setting and premise
The opening shots are shown to be at a port in Western Samoa but the main drama is set in Porirua, New Zealand. The set time is 1967 but is eventually shifted to the 1980s. The film primarily deals with the issue of xenophobia in a small neighbourhood existence and how it can potentially destroy relationships if left unresolved.
Synopsis
A young Samoan couple (played by Frederick Winterstein and Doris A. Vai) move into the neighbourhood, only to discover their white emigrant neighbour (played by Ivan J. Sumelj) is unhappy about their arrival. This event spawns a series of xenophobic remarks on his part, targeted specifically towards the couple and the Pacific Islanders in general. As a result of this his wife (played by Mary Doumith) confronts his racist and xenophobic attitude with much antipathy. Twenty years later this pattern is repeated when an Arabic couple (played by Simon Menzies and Farnaz Fanaian) become new neighbours of the Samoan husband.
