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Atlas Vallard: Uma narrativa francesa da América em meados do século XVI
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-28)
The Vallard Atlas is a double-sheeted atlas-book, with fifteen maps and nautical information sheets housed at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. This atlas is rich in iconography, abundant in wind roses, and ...
La odisea pirata de Sharp, el derrotero español y sus copias inglesas: ¿Transmisión o apropiación de conocimiento?
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-28)
This article will focus on the cartography resulting from the raids of the English buccaneer Bartholomew Sharp and his pirate comrades in the Spanish American Pacific between 1680 and 1681. Mainly, I will examine some of ...
Cartografiando los confines del imperio: El intendente Francisco Hurtado y los caminos y poblados de Chiloé
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-28)
At the end of the 18th century, some military engineers were assigned to the Chiloé Archipelago to carry out work on fortification works. They were also invested with the hierarchy of Governors or Mayors in ...
El ‘Atlas Geográfico Ibero-Americano’ de la editorial barcelonesa Alberto Martín (1901-1915)
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-28)
Alberto Martín was a publishing house founded in Barcelona in 1895 and specialized in the publication of geographical books. One of his most outstanding projects was the publication of a collection of Ibero-American ...
La cartografía de Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala: El “Mapa Mundi” y las “Ciudades y villas”
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-28)
The “Mapa Mundi del Reino de las Indias” contained in the Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno of Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala constitutes the introductory sheet to the chapter of “Ciudades y villas”. Compared with the ...
Un recorrido por los barrios extramuros de La Habana en los planos de los archivos españoles (1763-1834)
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-28)
This article analyzes a series of urban plans, collected from Spanish archival collections, of the suburbs of Havana with the aim of knowing the transformation and growth of this space. The cartographies presented show ...
Todo mezclado en el terreno: Los conocimientos geográficos de los mamelucos aplicados por los jesuitas en la producción cartográfica del Backlands paraguayo (1746-1753)
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-28)
Cartographic images made by Jesuits in the 18th century turned out to be transnational and locally mixed cognitive experiences, as these missionary agents of a global institution were forced to establish a collaborative ...