{"id":845682,"date":"2017-12-27T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=845682"},"modified":"2017-12-27T12:01:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T17:01:38","slug":"the-invention-of-frisland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/12\/the-invention-of-frisland\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invention of Frisland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nicolo Zeno and Girolamo Ruscelli, Septentrionalivm partivm nova tabvla<\/i>, 1561.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Atlas Obscura<\/em> has the odd and fascinating story<\/a> of how a Venetian named Nicol\u00f2 Zeno created an island in the middle of the North Atlantic called Frisland<\/a>, in an apparent attempt to claim that Venetian explorers had discovered the New World. After it appeared on Zeno’s 1558 map<\/a>, it persisted on other maps for a century afterward (it was even claimed for England in 1580), and the existence of Frisland itself was not fully debunked for a long time after that. “The answer to Zeno\u2019s enduring success lies not with his works, but with his audience. For centuries, people believed Zeno because they wanted to believe him. That was Zeno\u2019s true stroke of genius. He created a story too tantalizing for people to ignore.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atlas Obscura has the odd and fascinating story of how a Venetian named Nicol\u00f2 Zeno created an island in the middle of the North Atlantic called Frisland, in an apparent attempt to claim that Venetian… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,110],"tags":[1119,281,111],"class_list":["post-845682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-map-errors","tag-frisland","tag-hoaxes","tag-phantom-islands","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1834678,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/10\/newberry-library-digitizes-novacco-collection\/","url_meta":{"origin":845682,"position":0},"title":"Newberry Library Digitizes Novacco Collection","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 October 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"Franco Novacco Map Collection, Newberry Library The Newberry Library has announced that it has digitized the 754 maps comprising its Franco Novacco Map Collection, which includes Italian maps from the 16th and 17th centuries. 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