Friday, January 07, 2022

Diego Gutiérrez, Spanish cartographer of Casa de la Contratación, produced this 1562 map of the western hemisphere to assert Spanish claims to new world territories. Zoom to see California inscribed for the 1st time on a printed map: https://t.co/nQGmnPOiGa …


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