The Spanish Pacific
Map of the Pacific Ocean showing North and South America. Cartographic elements include lines of latitude and longitude, location of rivers and some settlements. Decorative elements include ships, especially Magellan's boat, Victoria, with a scene of warfare and a guiding angel on her prow. The map first appeared in 1590 and delineates the west coast of North America more accurately than any other printed map to date. It may be based on an unrecorded Spanish voyage. Derived from Gerard Mercator's world map of 1569 with details from some 25 Portuguese manuscript maps of Barolomeo de Lasso. Ortelius is attributed to be the creator of the first true atlas, which combines text and uniform map sheets in a bound book.
From the John Carter Brown Library, Luna Imaging
Contents of this path:
- Spanish Manila and the Conquest of Asia
- The Chinese of Manila and Formation of America’s First Chinatown: The Japanese, Chinese, and Filipinos in New Spain
- Science Across the Pacific: The Scientific Ideas and Books of the First Augustinians and Dominicans in the Philippines
- The Japanese in Mexico: Japanese Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Guadalajara
