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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 the first ...
Juan de la Cosa. 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 ...
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Nov 12, 2017 · Born: 1450-1460 in Santoña, Cantabria – Spain. Death: 28 February 1510 in Turbaco ( present Colombia ). Burial: Unknown. He died when he was wounded by poisoned arrows fired by the natives of this Colombian area. Charges: – Spanish navigator, cartographer and adventurer. – Spy for the Spanish crown in Portugal.
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Chart of Juan de la Cosa (1500) by Juan de la Cosa Original Source: Museo Naval Madrid. This nautical chart is t he first known cartographic representation of the American continent. It shows the extent of our knowledge of the world in 1500. It was produced by the navigator Juan de la Cosa in 1500 in Puerto de Santa Maria (Cadiz, Spain), as can ...
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 new lands and to furnish evidence that the ...
Juan de la Cosa. c. 1460-1510. Spanish navigator and cartographer who participated in the earliest explorations of America. He was captain of the Santa María on Christopher Columbus 's first voyage to America in 1492 and returned with Columbus on his second American journey in 1493. In 1499 he participated in the exploration of the northern ...
Juan de La Cosa. Cosa, JUAN DE LA, navigator and cartographer, according to tradition b. in 1460 at Sta. Maria del Puerto (Santora), on the Bay of Biscay, Spain, and hence called JUAN BISCAYNO, d. on the coast of the Gulf of Uraba, February 28, 1510. He passed his life from earliest childhood on the ocean.
