Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumque Insularum Circumiacientium delineatio. - ca. 1579

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Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumque Insularum Circumiacientium delineatio. - ca. 1579

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  • ca. 1579 (Creation)

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hand colored copper print.

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Ortelius was a Flemish cartographer and geographer, generally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas. He was  the first to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present position. The suggestion of the Florida Keys was uncommon for these period. A notable error is that the Tropic of Cancer is mislabelled as the Tropic of Capricorn.

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Shows coast at Culiacán (Mexico), the southern tip of Florida, and the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas).

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