![]() We will focus on the images of Southern Atlantic to examine some political, commercial, and aesthetical senses implied in the representation and naming of that pars meridionalis of the ocean in European maps made between XVI and XVIII centuries.Topographische Karte des eidgenössischen Kantons Aargau: im Auftrage der Staatsbehörden nach dem Massstabe von 1:25,000 in den Jahren 18 aufgenommen und 1844/45 in den Massstab von 1:50,000 übertragen / durch Ernst Heinrich Michaelisġ:50,000 (E 7☄2'–E 8☂9'/N 47☃9'–N 47☀7')ġ map in 4 sheets: black/white each 65 x 56 cm + commentary (16 pp. = Cartographica Helvetica. However, we noticed some connections between the ideas about the Atlantic Ocean in maps and some historical processes (such as the consolidation of market of slaves or the emergency of nationalist discourses). ![]() In few words: maps display that extension, name/s, borders and identities of the Southern Atlantic Ocean have been registered in different ways. Summary Theme: The Matterhorn depicted in maps. This attitude is reflected in the labels naming regional seas next to particular coasts. In general, maps depicting the Atlantic Ocean are more involved in the representation of continental lands and islands than in the representation of the Atlantic it-self. The Oceanus Aethipicus of XVI and XVII centuries as it appears in maps signed by Münster, Pigafetta, Oliva, Blaeu, and Janssonius- became the Mer Océan Meridionale de Bellin, and Buache, or the Southern Ocean in English atlases of XVIII century. the Swiss Society of Cartography, Chief editor of Cartographica Helvetica. Even more, some of them started to distinguish the Northern Ocean from the Southern one. The aims of this paper is to present a cartographic practice to indicate the. Moreover, that ocean was the (cartographical) territory where Spanishs and Portugueses Crowns essayed a line in order to split their domains.īut there were also French, English and Deutschland navigators who mapped the ocean and baptized it with several names. Diccon Bewes, Dina Christ, Nicola Carpi L’atlas suisse des curieuses et des curieux. ![]() ![]() 16.95 Cartographica Helvetica: A Young Explorers Atlas of Switzerland (. Especially Spaniards and Portugueses explored the Atlantic Ocean and reached new places which were described, interpreted and occupied. By Clive Gifford, Tracy Worrall (Illustrator). Cartographica Helvetica (although not an official publication of D-A-CH but of the Swiss group, it is considered to be the journal of record of the. In the XV and XVI centuries, the European maritime expansion towards the South and the discovery of the New World transformed the traditional Mare Oceanus into a new, huge and unknown ocean. Cartographica Helvetica: A Young Explorers Atlas of Switzerland is written by Diccon Bewes and published by Helvetiq.
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