Detail View: JCB Map Collection: Chica sive Patagonica et Australis Terra. 1597.
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Accession Number:
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B07-110
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File Name:
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B07-110-000
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Call number:
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Cabinet Gg597 /1
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Map title:
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Chica sive Patagonica et Australis Terra. 1597.
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Place of Publication:
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Louvain
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Publication date:
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[1597]
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Map size height:
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23 cm.
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Map size width:
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29 cm.
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Item description:
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2 maps on one sheet
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Geographical description:
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Two maps on one sheet of the Straits of Magellan and the unknown Southern Continent. Chica sive Patagoniun Regio depicts the Magellan strait and Australis Terre Pars [Tierra del Fuego], while the south polar view shows Terra Australis with Beach, Lucach and Maletur. Nova Guinea separated from Terra Australis. Includes the Spanish town of "Philippopolis" and "C. della Victoria" is noted at the point where Magellan entered the Pacific.
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Cartobibliographic notes:
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In: Wytfliet, C. Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum sive Occidentis notitia brevi commentario illustrata, et hac secunda editione magna sui parte aucat (Louvain, 1597). The Straits of Magellan are not named on this map as on later editions. Wytfliet's Descriptionis achieved seven editions, and although the title links with Ptolemy, the work involves the history of discovery, geography, natural history and ethnology of the New World, the world unknown to the ancients. Schilder (1976) contends that this map does not support the view that Australia had already been discovered in the 16th century, and asserts that it relates only to the voyages through the Magellan Straits.
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References:
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Schilder, G. Australia unveiled.
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Geographic Area:
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South America
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Normalized date:
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1597
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LC bibliographic number:
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b54106072
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Creator:
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Wytfliet, Corneille
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