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The "Biographie Universelle" informs us that "An ancient manuscript chart drawn in 1529 by Diego Ribeiro, a Spanish cosmographer, has preserved the memory of the voyage of Gomez [a Portuguese sent out by Charles the Fifth].
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"Magellan's circumnavigation added the west coast of South America and the island clusters scattered across the Pacific to the places coming under observation. Officials in Seville gave one cartographer, Diego Ribeiro, access to the master records of discoveries from which he produced, in 1527, a beautiful map tracking the Victoria, the lone ship from Magellan's fleet that successfully completed the route he had laid out. Kept as a state secret, Ribeiro's map served as the template for the maps used for navigation by all Spanish vessels. Experts now consider it the first truly scientific world map. Still, no map fully evoked the vastness of the ocean until well into the seventeenth century."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 66-67
December 28, 2016