Charting Empire, Charting Difference: Gómara's Historia general de las Indias and Spanish Maritime Cartography.

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      SPAIN
    • Abstract:
      Explores Spanish maritime cartography during the 1500s. Analysis of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's 'Historia general de las Indias'; Characteristics of portolan charts; Rhetorical and logical function of histporiography.