Image: Map of the Indian Ocean and the China Sea was engraved in 1728 by Ibrahim Müteferrika
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Description: This map of the Indian Ocean and the China Sea was engraved in 1728 by the Hungarian-born Ottoman cartographer and publisher Ibrahim Müteferrika; it is one of a series that illustrated Kâtib Çelebi’s Cihannuma (Universal Geography), the first printed book of maps and drawings to appear in the Islamic world. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Title: Map of the Indian Ocean and the China Sea was engraved in 1728 by Ibrahim Müteferrika
Credit: it is one of a series that illustrated Kâtib Çelebi’s Cihannuma (Universal Geography) http://cimes.csusb.edu/newsEvents/map5.htm
Author: Ibrahim Müteferrika
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