Luigi Ferdinando Marsili
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Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsili was an Italian scholar and natural scientist, who also served as an emissary and soldier. He is considered one of the founding fathers of oceanography.
Conte Ferdinando de Marsigli
Drawing of a grey heron, after Raimondo Manzini, published in Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus, vol. 5.
Front Cover of Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus, The Hague, 1726
Treaty of Karlowitz
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The Treaty of Karlowitz, concluding the Great Turkish War of 1683–1699, in which the Ottoman Empire was defeated by the Holy League at the Battle of Zenta, was signed in Karlowitz, in the Military Fro
Luigi Ferdinando Marsili
…to the successful siege of Buda in 1686 and in the following years in the military operations of the liberation war against the Turks. After the Treaty of Karlowitz he was commissioned to lead the Habsburg border demarcation commission. Marsigli mapped the 850 km-long Habsburg-Ottoman border in the former Kingdom…
The official document of the treaty
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1686, before the treaty
Chapel of Peace, where the Treaty of Karlowitz was negotiated