The original Kunstmann IV planisphere, now lost, was anonymous and undated but is attributed to Jorge Reinel and his father, Pedro Reinel, who would have made it around 1519, when they were working for the Casa de Contratación (House of Contracts) of Spain. The planisphere constitutes a compendium of the geographical discoveries up to just before the voyage task of Magellan and Elcano. Historiography closely links the making of the planisphere to the preparation of that expedition, due to the assonance between the contents of the map (including the location of the Moluccas and the vast size of the Pacific Ocean) with the measurements indicated in the geographical memory (Lembrança geográfica) sent by Magellan to Charles V in September 1519
Collection: Images
Project: 9. Travels and travelers: economic, social and cultural connections.
Chronology: XVI
Scope: Secondary Education, Higher Education
Link: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/kunstmann-iv-planisphere/LQXhy8DfBEmuIw
Resource type: Image
Format: Images
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, CPL GE AA-564 (RES)
Language: Latin and Spanish
Date: 1519
Owner: Manuela Ghizzoni (Modernalia)
Identifier: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b59055673
Copyright: BnF ou Bibliothèque nationale de France
Abstract: German artist Otto Progel's 1836 painted copy of the original planisphere Kunstmann IV lost in a bombing raid during World War II in 1945
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