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] 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.
Juan de la Cosa Map The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris
Juan de la Cosa Map Madrid, Spain The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop. Been Here? 187 Want to Visit? 652 Detail of map. Juan de la Cosa's work is full of narrative detail, such as the depiction of Saint Christopher at the top of the map: a place usually reserved for an image of the Virgin and Child.. Cosa, J. d. l. (2021, June 16). Map of the World by Juan de la Cosa . World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/14262/map-of-the-world-by-juan-de-la-cosa/ Chicago Style Cosa, Juan de la. " Map of the World by Juan de la Cosa ." World History Encyclopedia. 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.
CARTA di JUAN de la COSA. (1500). Madrid, Musée Naval. (Kish 1980, tav. 54) History 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. 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. Español: Llamado Mapa de Juan de la Cosa. Esperanto: La tiel nomita Mapo de Juan de la Cosa. Date 1500 date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 Medium parchment medium QS:P186,Q226697 Dimensions height: 183 cm (72 in); width: 96 cm (37.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,183U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,96U174728 Collection institution QS:P195,Q1815235 The map of Juan de la Cosa is a world map that includes the earliest known representation of the New World and the first depiction of the equator and the Tropic of Cancer on a nautical chart. The map is attributed to the Castilian navigator and cartographer, Juan de la Cosa, and was likely created in 1500.
Maps Cosa's Map The world map of Juan de la Cosa, dawn 1500 the first to show the Americas
The map's creator, Juan de la Cosa, was a Cantabrian sailor from the town of Santoña who had settled in El Puerto de Santa María. He accompanied Christopher Columbus on his first 2 voyages. The famous world map ascribed to La Cosa has a vignette of Saint Christopher located in the region of Honduras (Fig. 1). Under this is the legend: 'Juan de la Cosa lafizo en elpuerto de S. ma en ano de 1500'. Translated this is: 'Juan de la Cosa made this [map] in the port of Santa Maria in the year 1500*. This was a small
Juan de la Cosa, the owner of Columbus' flagship, Santa María, in 1500 produced a map recording Columbus' discoveries, the landfall of Cabral in Brazil, Cabot's voyage to Canada, and da Gama's route to India. The first map showing North and South America clearly separated… Read More exploration of Panama 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.
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The Juan de la Cosa Map is found in the library's Special Collection department in the oversized book America in Maps Dating from 1500 to 1856. The Original map was purchased by the Spanish government in 1853 and is now part of the collection of the Naval Museum in Madrid. See Gaspar, "The Representation of the West Indies…" (note 6), pp. 20-21. 19 According to O'Donnell, 'El Mapamundo denominado «Carta de Juan de la Cosa»… ' (note 3), the map may have been constructed in two stages. The first, completed in 1500, consisted in a nautical chart representing the newly discovered lands in the New World.
