The Spanish Cosmographic Juntas of the Sixteenth Century

Lamb, Ursula

doi:10.1179/tin.1974.6.1.51

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“…The idea and the doubts about finding a maritime access to the west, but also the slowness in the exploitation of the riches of the East, and the successes of the Portuguese via their route to India led to King Ferdinand gathering in Toro (Zamora), in 1505, three authorities related to the politics and cosmography of the Indies: the bishop of Palencia Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca, the navigator Vicente Yánez Pinzón, and the cosmographer Amerigo Vespucci. The meeting of experts held in Toro had as its main objective the reconsideration of the search for the strait that Columbus could not locate (Ezquerra, 1973;Lamb, 1974).…”

Section: A Geophysical Problem: How To Start the Cakementioning

confidence: 99%

Making a Global Image of the World: Science, Cosmography and Navigation in Times of the First Circumnavigation of Earth, 1492-1522

Sánchez

2021

Cult. Hist. Digit. J.

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The voyages of exploration and discovery during the period of European maritime expansion and the immense amount of information and artefacts they produced about our knowledge of the world have maintained a difficult, if not non-existent, relationship with the main historiographical lines of the history of early modern science. This article attempts to problematize this relationship based on a historical account that seeks to highlight the scientific and institutional mechanisms that made the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first modern voyage, possible. The text argues that this voyage was the first modern voyage because it allowed the construction of a new scientific and cartographic image of the globe and contributed to our understanding of the world as a global world, altering the foundations on which modern European economic and geographic thought was based. In that sense, the voyage was something extraordinary, but not completely unexpected. It responded to a complex process of expansionary policy and technical development that dated back to the 15th century, which in 1519 was sufficiently articulated to carry out a great feat.

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Section: A Geophysical Problem: How To Start the Cakementioning

confidence: 99%