The Planisphere of Domingos Teixeira is a hand-painted
parchment
Parchment is a writing material made from specially prepared Tanning (leather), untanned skins of animals—primarily sheep, calves and goats. It has been used as a writing medium in West Asia and Europe for more than two millennia. By AD 400 ...
map of the world made by a Portuguese cartographer in 1573, during the reign of
Sebastian of Portugal
Sebastian ( ; 20 January 1554 – 4 August 1578) was King of Portugal from 11 June 1557 to 4 August 1578 and the penultimate Portuguese monarch of the House of Aviz.
He was the son of João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, and his wife, Joanna of Aus ...
. It is conserved in the
Bibliothèque nationale de France
The (; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites, ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository of all that is published in France. Some of its extensive collections, including bo ...
.
Datasheet
* Date: 1573
* Author: Domingos Teixeira (Portugal).
* Cartographic School: Portuguese.
* Brief description: World Map.
* Physical Location: Bibliothèque nationale de France
Description
It is one of the first full world maps showing the spice routes, both the
Portuguese route of
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama ( , ; – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and nobleman who was the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India, first European to reach India by sea.
Da Gama's first voyage (1497–1499) was the first to link ...
, following the east route and the Spanish route towards the west, discovered by
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan ( – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies. During this expedition, he also discovered the Strait of Magellan, allowing his fl ...
(shows the
Terra Magellanica not yet circumnavigated by
Diego Ramirez de Arellano that christened it
Isla de Xativa.
Tierra de Fuego, antes «Isla de Xativa»
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You can see the scope of the Tordesillas Meridian, both on the side of America (Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...
) and at the opposite side of the world at the Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...
, that according to the treaty of Zaragoza
The Treaty of Zaragoza or Saragossa, also called the Capitulation of Zaragoza or Saragossa, was a peace treaty between Castile and Portugal, signed on 22 April 1529 by King JohnIII of Portugal and the Habsburg Emperor Charles V in the Arago ...
should belong to Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...
, as they are in the "Portuguese" hemisphere.
See also
*Ancient world maps
The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period. The development ...
*Portuguese discoveries
Portuguese maritime explorations resulted in numerous territories and maritime routes recorded by the Portuguese on journeys during the 15th and 16th centuries. Portuguese sailors were at the vanguard of European exploration, chronicling and mapp ...
*World map
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of t ...
*Windrose network
A rhumbline network (or windrose network) is a navigational aid consisting in lines drawn from multiple vertex (geometry), vertices in different compass direction, directions forming a web-like mesh. They were featured on portolan charts and ot ...
*La Cartografía Mallorquina
''La Cartografía Mallorquina'' ('' Majorcan Cartography '') is a book of essays on the Majorcan portolans written by Professor Julio Rey Pastor with the collaboration of Ernesto García Camarero. It is a scholarly essay, a key element in the stud ...
References
External links
Gallica - BnF : Planisphère de Domingos Teixeira 1573
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1573 works
Historic maps of the world
Portuguese exploration in the Age of Discovery
16th-century maps and globes