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Map of Juan de la Cosa. Juan de la Cosa (c. 1450 – 28 February 1510) was a Castilian navigator and cartographer, known for designing the earliest European world map which incorporated the territories of the Americas discovered in the 15th century. De la Cosa was the owner and master of the Santa María, and thus played an important role in ...
Juan de la Cosa (c. 1460 – February 28, 1510) was a Spanish cartographer, conquistador, and explorer. He made the earliest extant European world map to incorporate the territories of the Americas that were discovered in the fifteenth century, sailed the first 3 voyages with Christopher Columbus , and was the owner/captain of the Santa María .
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Juan de la Cosa (c. 1450 – 28 February 1510) was a Castilian navigator and cartographer, known for designing the earliest European world map which incorporated the territories of the Americas discovered in the 15th century.
It is an image of the idol worshiped by idolaters in the city of Castrema. Not only was Juan de la Cosa's map a first-rate cartographic document, it was also an enlightened representation...
Juan de la Cosa (hwän dā lä kō´sä), c.1460–1510, Spanish navigator. He sailed with Columbus in 1492 (as pilot of the flagship Santa María) and again in 1498. After accompanying Alonso de Ojeda in 1499, he drew (1500) a world map (a manuscript copy exists in Madrid) that seems to be the first to question the identification with Asia of ...
The chart or map of Juan de la Cosa records a very precise moment in the history of globalisation and human encounters: completed in 1500, it is the first “world” map to depict the coast of the Americas – and even predates the word “America,” which was not used until 1507.
