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The Terrestrial Globe

Building upon the cartographic examples of his contemporaries, particularly Mercator and Frisius, DeMongenet's coastlines and place names reflect a level of knowledge current at the time.

The island of Japan is featured between Asia and North America, but goes unnamed in this version of Demongenet's map.

A further touch of currency is added by a phrase referring to the return of Hernan Cortes (Cortesio) in 1530, appearing off the Pacific coast of Central America.


CHSI Inv. Number 1997-1-2060a, 1997-1-2060b,
Date: circa 1552
François DeMongenet

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