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Figure 10.
Triangle nets depicted on maps of different authors being compared with Jenkinson's map.
They are fixed vertically according to one common axis Moscow-Azov. The fragment of the poster
presentation in mentioned Zurich and Vienna Conferences
5.4. Ethnographic content on the Jenkinson's map, including its fauna
As far as the ethnographic elements in Jenkinson's map are concerned, it is exceptionally
rich, although this is rather typical for the 16
th
century maps. However, it can be an
outstanding source of information for the specialists of different fields
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. In this respect the
genuine copy significantly dominates over its renditions. Although fauna is usually joined
with physiography, however, in this article the author decided to join it with ethnography
because the human being from the earliest times has lived with animals to use them as the
means of transport and, unfortunately, as the foodstuffs, too. As the means of transport we
can see numerous camels and as the means of food we can see hunters with their trophies.
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During the Polish Project 1994/1995 the author found interesting work in Antwerp Plantin Museum by B. Vuylsteke,
entitled “Het Theatrum orbis terrarium van Abraham Ortelius (1595). Een studie van decoratieve elementen en de
gehistreerde voorstellingen (unpublished Ph.D. thesis), Louvain 1984.
