Andrea Bianco was an Italian sailor and cartographer of the 15th century. His atlas of 1436 comprises ten leaves of vellum, measuring 29 × 38 cm., in an 18th century binding. The first leaf contains a description of the rule of marteloio for resolving the course, with the "circle and square", two tables and two other diagrams. The next eight leaves contain various navigation charts. The ninth leaf contains a circular world map measuring 25 cm in circumference.
And the final leaf contains the Ptolemaic world map on Ptolemy's first projection, with graduation. Bianco also collaborated with Fra Mauro on the Fra Mauro world map of 1459.
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“How should the world be luckier if this house,
Where passion and precision have been one
Time out of mind, became too ruinous
To breed the lidless eye that loves the sun?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a wind-blown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.”
—Bill Bryson (b. 1951)