Do oceano dos clássicos aos mares dos impérios: transformações cartográficas do Atlântico sul

Authors

  • Carla Lois Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • João Carlos Garcia Universidade do Porto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-47142009000200003

Keywords:

Toponymy, South Atlantic, Ocean Sea, Ethiopian Sea, North Sea, West Sea

Abstract

This article explores the various place-names given to the geographic localities in the South Atlantic by European cartographers in the 16th and 17th centuries. Despite of the fact that representation of continental space seem to have been more common in mapmaking at the time than the depiction of oceans and seas, oceanic waters often received particular names - regional seas - depending on the coastline in combination to the classical names. A series of connections can be established between this fact and the process of consolidation of slave trading and competition between empires.

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Published

2009-12-01

Issue

Section

Material Culture Studies

How to Cite

LOIS, Carla; GARCIA, João Carlos. Do oceano dos clássicos aos mares dos impérios: transformações cartográficas do Atlântico sul . Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material, São Paulo, v. 17, n. 2, p. 15–37, 2009. DOI: 10.1590/S0101-47142009000200003. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.usp.br/anaismp/article/view/5512.. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.