Nueva y correcta carta del Mar Pacifico ó del sur ... el año de 1744.
Creator 1:
Vicente de la Fuente
Creator 1 role:
f[ecit].
Place image published:
[Madrid]
Image publisher:
[Antonio Marin]
Image date:
1748
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 4, pt. 2, following p. 484
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
42.8 cm. (neatline)
Image dimension width:
69.4 cm. (neatline)
Page dimension height:
48.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
72.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Spanish
Description:
Map of the west and northwest coast of South America. Cartographic elements include degrees of longitude and latitude, compass rose, names of rivers and islands, location of equator and Tropic of Capricorn, sea shoals or shallows. Cartouche includes ship,
Source creator:
Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795
Source Title:
Relacion historica del viage a la America meridional ... Segunda parte, Tomo quarto.
Source place of publication:
En Madrid
Source publisher:
Por Antonio Marin
Source date:
M.DCC.XLVIII [1748]
notes:
An account of the expedition sent by the French Académie Royale des Sciences in 1735 to measure a degree of the meridian at the equator. The participants included the Frenchmen, La Condamine, Godin, and Bouguer, and the Spaniards, Ulloa and Juan y Santaci
