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| The Replica In Deutsches Teknikmuseum in Berlin. |
On the northern wall of
Fide church on the island
Gotland in the middle of the
Baltic, there is an
engraving done
"al fresco" early in the
13th century when the wall was plastered. The engraving is interesting as
it shows the perhaps oldest known picture of a ship with the
rudder mounted on the stern-post (instead of laterally on the starboard quarter). Could it be that the
stern rudder was invented on Gotland as being the
most important merchant center in the
Baltic before the
Hanseatic League was founded?
Several attempts have been made to
reconstruct what the pictured ship could have looked like in real life. One of the
more ambitious attempts is exhibited in the
Deutsches Teknikmuseum in Berlin. -
Gunnar Sillén
Na parede norte da igreja de Fide, na
ilha de Gotland, no
meio do Báltico, há uma g
ravura feita "ao ar livre" no início do século 13, quando
a parede foi rebocada. A gravura é interessante, pois
mostra a imagem mais antiga conhecida de um navio com o leme montado na popa (em vez de lateralmente no quarto de estibordo). Poderia ser que
este tipo de leme tenha sido inventado em Gotland, que era o
centro comercial mais importante do Báltico antes da
fundação da Liga Hanseática? Várias tentativas foram feitas para
reconstruir o navio retratado na vida real. Uma das
tentativas mais ambiciosas é exibida no
Deutsches Teknikmuseum em Berlim. -
Gunnar Sillén
Link: The.Ancient.Ship.From.Fide.Church.Paper.Model.by.Gunnar.Sillén
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