The Dieci Call for Maps, 1460
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MacKAY, Pierre A.
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In 1460, the Council of Ten in Venice called for detailed maps of the environment of each fortress in their empire. A map of Negropont engraved in 1571 appears to be based on one of the 1460 maps.
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An earlier version was pubished in the blog, Surprisedbytime. The text of the paper is in OPEN DOCUMENT FORMAT (suffix .odt) which is a format that can be read by the latest forms of Microsoft Word, and takes up far less room than DOC or DOCX.