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Given the plans to make available a facsimile of the Waldseemueller's two
famous maps -- the 1507 world map and the Carta Marina
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There is no reason for skepticism in the face of my highly detailed
Magellan-Vespucci Dossier (posted twice on Maphist) listing
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I agree that in terms of his genealogy (family origins) de Haro might have
been something like Basque.
But a large portio
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In my post, I meant to say that San Antoni was the name of the ship of
those who betrayed Magellan and who darted away from the
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I hope and trust that I have clarified what my real concerns were even if
that was not made so clear in the initial statement.
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Dear Nito:
My book first published in 2007 contains my answer to your questions
which does not need crazy pro-Chinese theo
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I think what I meant to suggest that it was okay to quote from my post
with an appropriate citation back to me or share it with
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This is the follow-up post dealing with the circumnavigation issue which I
raised in my post entitled Dating the Waldseemuelle
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First, I was able finally to do a limited second printing of the second
expanded edition of my book The Magellan Myth: Reflect
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Many thanks to Peter Barber and Eric Johnson-Baufre. It seems clear there
is no readily available information to indicate Lord
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Many thanks to all those who have offered more information and comments
concerning Lord Burghley's Maps.
I was aware of
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Lord Burghley, the famous minister to Queen Elizabeth, had special maps
made evidently for each shire. Highly detailed maps, s
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I have had no success in obtaining contact information for the BN's
department for paying for its approval to reproduce an imag
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This is a supplement and summary to my last post which was sent very late
east coast time.
What was at play in this 15
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I never said I discovered first anything relating to this globe.
I never claimed it was made in 1507 or by Waldseemuelle
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According to a note Monique Pelletier sent to Professor Robles (Paris)
then forwarded to me, Gallois attributed this globe to S
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It is my understanding that it was the French scholar Lucien Gallois who
was the first to attribute the Green-Quiri globe to Sc
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Someone named Jean Fontaine just posted on Maphist (see text reproduced
below) a message that provides an Internet link to a sca
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Like Mr. Gaspar, I also noticed that the text of Professor Robles Macias
Mapist post the other day was missing, However, since
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It would be interesting to know if the experts at the Bibliotheque
Nationale will or have published already a detailed study of
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What motivated the Bibliotheque Nationale experts to study the Green-Quiri
Globe more closely and attribute it to Waldseemuelle
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Professor Luis Robles Macias in Paris just forwarded to me this superb
view of the Green or Green-Quiri Globe (see below) owned
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Concerning the Brazilian Professor Ariel Castro's theory about the
inception of the Saint-Die project as he summarized in a Map
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This page was sent to you by: pwdb...@aol.com.
N.Y. / REGION | January 17, 2011
Cunning, Care And Sheer Luck Save Rare Map
By MICHA
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Paolo Afonso is off base when he repeats the mantra that the expedition
that Vespucci was on in 1501-1502 only sailed along Sou
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In response to John Hebert and others, I now seem to recall that I looked
at the famous Diogo Ribeiro world map which (like Can
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--- Begin Message ---
John:
I fully agree with you that the 1494 treaty line is suggested or
implied in the Waldseemuell
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It was the first Corte Real expedition under Gaspar Corte (not the second
expedition) sent to the far NW which departed from Li
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In response, here are six observations offered as clarifications.
A, I came to the conclusion circa 2005 which I think was
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Dear Mr. Robles Macias:
Concerning your first point, you are correct.
Those little flags in the NW look to be Engl
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Mr. Stephen Davies
The Hong Kong Maritime Museum
Dear Mr. Davies:
You raise an interesting point about circumnavigation
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The Princeton Exhibition
First, before I forget, there is still time, a full week for
Maphisters to rush to Princeton'
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Some years ago while working on my book The Magellan Myth: Reflections on
Columbus, Vespucci and the Waldseemueller Map of 150
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John Delaney's response to my strongly-worded critique of the new
Princeton exhibition entitled Strait Through from Magellan to
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I forgot to mention that I met Ben Olshin for the first time at the
special session that the American Historical Association (AHA
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Ben Olshin's article on the Rossi maps in Terrae Incognitae (2007) is
long, meticulous and the most detailed and also essential
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To summarize, the Galvao map (circa early 1400s) which evidently does not
survive takes one nowhere, the Ricci map of 1602 is t
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I gather than my harsh critique of the fraudulent scholarship behind the
new and Princeton Exhibition and my passing remarks ab
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It is too bad that Princeton University Library chose to tarnish its
reputation by hosting a map exhibition through 2010 concer
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The confusion is in part due to me. I evidently did not understand that
if a solid globe was made from gores it is still consi
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After reviewing Peter Meurer's more detailed census, two observations.
I am a little puzzled by his description of the 1
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While doing some additional research concerning Schoener's view of
Magellan and trying to pin-down exactly how many of his glob
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In response to the inquiry of Barry Rudeman of Rudeman Antique Maps, Inc.
I have never seen a map or globe with the name "the S
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Ths map dated to late 1500 was made very much in the shadow of Cabral's
voyage during which he touched and explored a portio
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Given that some on Maphist recently raised the issue of Columbus' route in
1492, it is worth noting Wey Gomez' book entitled Th
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Dear Maphisters:
While I continue to wait for some challenger to step forward and
refute my multidisplinary dossier rega
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While others on Maphist clash over the Vinland map, here are some
observations about the germane issue of "conclusive evidence"
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I just learned that Mark McDonald (British Library) published an awesome
two-volume work in 2004 entitled The Print Collection
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An historical atlas with this title published in 1994 is the most
impressive such atlas I have ever seen. Originally $50/$70 i
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Maphisters:
Below in my final rejoinder to the ultraskeptics before speaking in
the auditorium at the New York Public L
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Waldseemueller Map Mystery Resolved - A Critique of a Critique
The terse argument from one Maphist commentator today
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Given that only so many MapHisters will be able to attend my lecture on
the Waldseemueller map at the New York Public Library on
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There is word that even though the Nobel Committee timed its award for
President Obama to coincide with Leif Erickson Day which
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