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    Post Six Free 17th-Centruy Compass Roses in Various Languages

    Found these compass roses while browsing The Atlante Veneto and figured someone here might be able to use 'em. They're from 1693 and were created by Vincenzo Coronelli.

    Italian!
    ItalianCompass.png

    French!
    FrenchCompass.png

    Latin!
    LatinCompass.png

    Dutch!
    DutchCompass.png

    Greek! (At least I think it's Greek, those are Greek letters. Could also be Cyrillic, it wasn't labeled and I'm not as familiar with those alphabets. Feel free to correct me.)
    GreekCompass.png

    English!
    EnglishCompass.png
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    very nice. The greek one has at least one greek word (Notos = South), but i can't find any any other meanings with google traduction :-P

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    Just reading the different languages is very interesting. So is of course seeing how they arranged things historically. Those are pretty cool thanks for sharing them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Falconius View Post
    Those are pretty cool thanks for sharing them.
    You bet! I figured that at the very least it might inspire people.

    Quote Originally Posted by Bindusara View Post
    very nice. The greek one has at least one greek word (Notos = South), but i can't find any any other meanings with google traduction :-P
    Yeah, that's what made me think it's Greek. Plus I don't think Cyrillic has the Lambda and it's used in a few places.

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    According to a quick Google search, it turns out that the Greek wind rose has the names of certain Greek gods of the winds. The names in this particular wind rose—which is also upside down—are Notus, Libonotus, Lips, Zephyrus, Argestes, Thrascias, Aparctias, Meses, Hellespontias, Apeliotes, Eurus, and Phoenicias. All the Greek names in this wind rose has a Roman equivalent. There's some more information here.

    Thanks for sharing them, they're beautiful

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    Quote Originally Posted by SkryNRiv View Post
    According to a quick Google search, it turns out that the Greek wind rose has the names of certain Greek gods of the winds. The names in this particular wind rose—which is also upside down—are Notus, Libonotus, Lips, Zephyrus, Argestes, Thrascias, Aparctias, Meses, Hellespontias, Apeliotes, Eurus, and Phoenicias. All the Greek names in this wind rose has a Roman equivalent. There's some more information here.

    Thanks for sharing them, they're beautiful
    I can't read the Latin one obviously, but I do see it has Phoenix as one of the directions. And that almost all of them have a completely different name rather than a variant of the cardinal directions.

    I think it's interesting that some of the roses call the directions by the lands that are in those directions from the countries of origin. For instance the Italian one has the Levant and "Greco" as directions.

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    Thanks for sharing. Historic stuff is always really cool to me

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    Can't speak for it being Greek or not, but wherever it is originally from it's beautiful. I'll definitely save that as inspiration for my own compass rose designs. Thanks for sharing!
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    Very Cool!

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