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The prolific Dieppe school of Northern France produced some of the atlases with the most innovative and beautiful marginalia. The Vallard Atlas, whilst ascribed to the Dieppe cartography school, has a clearly Portuguese flavour due to either its anonymous creator or the model that inspired it. It is quite significant to note that the atlas depicts the Eastern Coast of Australia for the first time in history, 200 years before the voyages of Captain Cook, erroneously considered the continent's discoverer.
One of its most noteworthy characteristics are the miniatures depicting colonization scenes from the 16th century, plus countless illustrations of the daily life of the native population. A curious aspect of this atlas is the fact that in almost all the maps the North is oriented towards the bottom of the page and the South is at the top. This was, to all appearances, a habit of Muslim cartographers but this practice was quite rare in Christian Europe.
CONTENTS:
Preface
Aníbal Cavaco Silva (former president of the Republic of Portugal)
From the editor to the reader
Manuel Moleiro
Introduction
Luís Filipe F. R. Thomaz (Director of the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Portuguese Catholic University)
The Dieppe school and its maps in their time Dennis Reinhartz (Emeritus professor at the University of Texas in Arlington)
The Vallard Atlas and sixteenth century knowledge of Australia
Luís Filipe F. R. Thomaz
The maps of the Vallard Atlas
Luís Filipe F. R. Thomaz, Dennis Reinhartz
The mythological narrative in the margins of the Vallard Atlas
Carlos Miranda García-Tejedor (Doctor in History)
Appendix
Luís Filipe F. R. Thomaz
Notes
Bibliography
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- Orginal LanguageEnglish, French, Spanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788496400498
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- FormatBook
- Pages240
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions335x245 mm
- IllustrationFull-color
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