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TEN MAPLETS ILLUSTRATING THE CARTOGRAPHY OF SOUTH AMERICA, 1500-1517.

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1. —1500. Juan de la Cosa, the famous pilot, born at Santona, on
the Bay of Biscay, killed in a light with Indians, 1509, who accompanied
Columbus on his second expedition (1493-6), and Alonso de Hojeda
(1499-1500), after return from which he compiled a chart of the world,
embodying the entire extant delineation of the New World. Facs. in
Nordenskiold's ' Periplus,' Jomard's ' Monuments,' and by Raymon de la
Sagra, with an 'Ensaio Biogralico,' by Antonio Vasano (Madrid, 1892).

2. —1502. Alberto Cantino had this chart drawn in Portugal and
forwarded it to Hercules d' Este, Duke of Ferrara. The original is now
at Modena. Harrisse, ' Les Corte Real1 (Paris, 1883), published a facs. of
the American portion ; Prof. E. L. Stevenson, the entire chart, 1906.

3. —1503. Nicolaus de Canerio, of Genoa. His chart is merely a
copy of a Portuguese one. See p. 29, note.

4. —1506. Bartolomeo Colon, from marginal sketches illustrating his
brother Christopher's letter written from Jamaica in 1503 in a codex of
the Bibl. Nazionale at Florence. R. Wieser, ' Die Karte des Bartolomeo
Colombo' (Innsbruck, 1893).

5. —1507. Waldseemiiller (Martin Hylacomilus), the author of the
famous ' Cosmographiae Introductio' (St. Die, 1507), in which reference
is made to a globe and a map of the world. Gallois, 1 Les Geographes
allemands de la Renaissance' (Paris, 1890), has published a facs. of the
globe, whilst to J. Fischer, S. J., and F. R. von Wieser, ' The Oldest Map
with the name America' (Innsbruck, 1903), we are indebted for a facsim.
of the map. The ' Insule 7 delle pulzelle ' of this map, which Schoner on
his globe (1515) calls 'Septe Formose Insule,' are not the Falklands, but
the ' Insulle Scti. Brandani sive puellarum' of Dulcert (1339), and the1 San
Brandany y ysole de Pouzele ' of Pizzigany (1367), which are identified with
the seven islands of the Azores, the Canaries, or an imaginary group to
the west of them. Isodore of Seville is responsible for their presence upon
maps. Waldseemiiller was born at Radolfzell about 1470, matriculated
at Freiburg in 1490, and died 1521.

6. —1508. Joan. Ruysch, ' Map of the World,' in a Roman edition of
Ptolemy. Ruysch is described as an experienced geographer and cartographer
. In c. 14 of a ' Nova orbis descriptio,' appended to this edition
of Ptolemy by Marco of Benevento, a monk, it is stated that the
Portuguese followed the coast of Terra Sanctae Cruris to lat. 37° or
perhaps 50°. A legend, to the south of the Rio de Cananor (rede
Cananea) is evidently from the same source, viz., a misunderstood report
on Vespucci's third voyage, 1501-2. Facs. in Nordenskiold, 'Facsimile
Atlas.'

7. —1510. The Lenox Globe. This globe is of copper and has a
diameter of 127 mm. It was " discovered " at Paris, in 1855, by Richard
Hunt, and is now in the Lenox Library, New York. It is described,
with a facsim., by C. H. Coote, in vol. X. of the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica,'
and in Nordenskiold's ' Facsimile Atlas.'

8.—1514
copied from
London, 1865

Leonardo da Vinci. This is a rough sketch apparently
a globe. See Major's ' Memoir ' in ' Archaeologia,' XL.,

These Maplets are drawn on a Quadratic Projection and on a Uniform
Scale, so as to be readily Comparable.

9. —1515. Johann Schoner, the celebrated mathematician of Nuremberg
(and indifferent cartographer), was born at Karlstadt in Franconia
in 1477, and died at Nuremberg in 1547. He is the author of several
globes, the earliest of the year 1515, in illustration of which he wrote
' Lucullentissima quaedam terrae totius descriptio' (Nuremberg, 1515).
Copies of this globe (which is printed) are at Frankfurt_and at Weimar.
See F. Wieser ' Magalhaes-Strasse ' (Innsbruck, 1881).

10. —1517. A Portuguese chart of 1509, with additions to 1515 or
1517, showing the results of the second voyage of Juan de Solis. Facsim.
in K. Kretschmer's ' Atlas,' XII. A chart by Vesconte de Maiollo of
Genoa, dated 1519, is identical with it. Both were first published in
the atlas accompanying Kunstmann's ' Die Entdeckung Amerikas'
(Munich, 1859).

11. —1907. A modern map of South America.