as the 400th anniversary of Columbus' first voyage approached, the search had become a quest for the cartographical Holy Grail. "No lost maps have ever been sought for so diligently as these," Britain's Geographical Journal declared at the turn of the century, referring both to the large m...
The chart of the world by Juan de la Cosa, the companion of Columbus, is the earliest extant which depicts the discoveries in the new world (150o), Nicolaus de Canerio, a Genoese, and the map which Alberto Cantino caused to be drawn at Lisbon for Hercules d'Este of Ferrara (1502),...
Does a 600-year-old Chinese map prove that Christopher Columbus was not the first to explore the New World?Gavin Menzies says in his book Who Discovered America? that the settling of North Americ a by non-native people is more complex than previous thought; he also points out in an interv...
When an exhibition held in Burgos, Spaincelebrating Magellan’s voyagewanted to use the Burgos Cathedral’s copy ofPietro Martire d’Angiera’s 16th-centuryLegatio Babylonica, which contains the first-ever map of the Caribbean, they discovered that the map had been replaced by a fake.El País...
USS Discovery would find itself in the brutal winter waters of Antarctica. The ship would get stuck in the sheets of ice, only to be released in 1904. Science and research continued to be at the forefront of this ship’s endeavors and it returned to the scene of its first voyage in ...
Cyclops— a 540-foot- (164-meter-) long naval vessel outfitted with 50-caliber guns — took on a load of 10,000 tons (9,072 metric tons) of manganese ore in Brazil, and then sailed north to Barbados, where it was resupplied for its nine-day voyage to Baltimore harbor. But after ...
Cyclops— a 540-foot- (164-meter-) long naval vessel outfitted with 50-caliber guns — took on a load of 10,000 tons (9,072 metric tons) of manganese ore in Brazil, and then sailed north to Barbados, where it was resupplied for its nine-day voyage to Baltimore harbor. But after ...
The Age of Discovery(Part I) (16 animated maps) Magellan's voyage - Christopher Columbus - Vasco da Gama - Bartolomeu Dias - Amerigo Vespucci - Treaty of Tordesillas - Trade in the Indian Ocean in the 15th century - Ibn Battuta - Zheng He - Cape Bojador ...
Nearly all the important early voyages in the age of discovery are present, including those of Columbus, Da Gama, Marco Polo and Magellan. The maps are hugely important and were produced by the geographer Gastaldi. The map of South East Asia is particularly important as it is the first to...
A secret first: did European navigators explore and map the West Coast of the Americas before Columbus died in 1506?Conventional wisdom holds that European explorers were still confused about the contours of the New World at the time of Columbus's death in ...