Search results
first first. Where. Spain () When. 1500. The oldest surviving map that unambiguously shows locations in the New World is a chart drawn by Juan de la Cosa (Spain) in 1500. Juan de la Cosa was a veteran navigator and the captain/owner of the Santa María, one of the three ships that sailed with Christopher Columbus in 1492.
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 ...
Jun 29, 2010 · De la Cosa’s map incorporates older information as well as the recent voyages of Vasco de Gama to India in 1498. Drawn on ox-hide, it measures 72” x 37 1/2”. The map was unknown before 1832 ...
Juan de la Cosa. Navigator and cartographer, according to tradition b. in 1460 at Sta. Maria del Puerto (Santona), on the Bay of Biscay, Spain, and hence called JUAN BISCAYNO, d. on the coast of the Gulf of Uraba, 28 February, 1510. He passed his life from earliest childhood on the ocean.
Juan de la Cosa. Juan de la Cosa was a Spanish sea captain who sailed with Columbus to the new world on his first three voyages. On the first trip, the sailed from the port of Palos, in Spain, on August 3, 1492. He was the owner of the flag ship of the expedition, the Santa Maria. He was an experienced navigator and pilot, that help Columbus ...
Description. Juan de la Cosa's map is a manuscript nautical chart of the world drawn on two joined sheets of parchment sewn onto a canvas backing. It measures 96 cm high by 183 cm wide. A legend written in Spanish at the western edge of the map translates as "Juan de la Cosa made this (map) in the port of Santa Maria in the year 1500". [1]
What the Juan de la Cosa Chart may tell us about Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage Donald Leon McGuirk, Jr. Independent Scholar, Denver, Colorado Abstract: Many historians have employed the log (Diario de a bordo) of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to the New World in their attempts to determine the first four Bahama Islands visited ...
