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A world map by Guillaume Brouscon, an example of a Dieppe map, 1543.

The Dieppe maps are a series of world maps and atlases produced in Dieppe, France, in the 1540s, 1550s, and 1560s. They are large hand-produced works, commissioned for wealthy and royal patrons, including Kings Henry II of France and Henry VIII of England. The Dieppe school of cartographers included Pierre Desceliers, Jean Rotz, Guillaume Le Testu, Guillaume Brouscon and Nicolas Desliens.

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Dieppe maps

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The Dieppe maps are a series of world maps and atlases produced in Dieppe, France, in the 1540s, 1550s, and 1560s. They are large hand-produced works...

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Dieppe

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Dieppe (French pronunciation: [djɛp]; Norman: Dgieppe) is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, northern France. Dieppe is a seaport...

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Theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia

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this theory is based on the following:: 6  The Dieppe maps, a group of 16th-century French world maps, depict a large landmass between Indonesia and Antarctica...

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Early world maps

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stones some of which are thought to contain maps Dieppe maps, a series of 16th-century world maps produced in Dieppe, France "Here be dragons", a phrase indicating...

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Jave la Grande

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with New Holland (Australia). This confusion was greater on the earlier Dieppe maps of the 1540s where Java Minor and Java Major (Jave la Grande) were transposed...

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Francis I of France

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return, the expedition triggered the development of the Dieppe maps, influencing the work of Dieppe cartographers such as Jean Rotz. Under the reign of Francis...

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List of historical maps

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map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe...

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Dirk Hartog

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Australian towns, streets have been named in his honour. Abel Tasman Dieppe maps Theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia Giles, Ernest (1889)...

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Guillaume Le Testu

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of the foremost cartographers of his time and an author of the Dieppe maps. His maps were distinguished by their sophistication and detail; they influenced...

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History of cartography

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sources.: 39  The Dieppe maps are a series of world maps produced in Dieppe, France, in the mid 16th century. They are large hand-produced maps, commissioned...

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French Western Australia

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Theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia (1522) Jave la Grande Dieppe maps Botany Bay, La Pérouse expedition (1788) Duigou, Serge (1989). L'Australie...

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Abel Tasman

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Memorial in Hyde Park and the crypt at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. Dieppe maps Willem Janszoon Janszoon voyage of 1605–06 Theory of Portuguese discovery...

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Congo River

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south, flowing through what would correspond to Angola and Botswana. The Dieppe maps of the mid-16th century show the Congo only as a minor river while having...

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European maritime exploration of Australia

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continent of Jave la Grande, which appears on a series of French world maps, the Dieppe maps, and that may, in part, be based on Portuguese charts. However,...

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Age of Discovery

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European maps from the 15th to the 18th centuries, with roots in a notion introduced by Aristotle. It was depicted on the mid-16th-century Dieppe maps, where...

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Terra Australis

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been documented as early as the 5th century on maps by Macrobius, who uses the term Australis on his maps. Other names for the hypothetical continent have...

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Houtman Abrolhos

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Abrolhos. That island is unlabelled on most of the Dieppe maps but, on Pierre Desceliers' 1550 map, it is labelled Arenes. In 1895, George Collingridge...

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Battista Agnese

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manuscript atlases of sea charts between 1534 and 1564, more cheaply than Dieppe maps but still considered of fine craftsmanship. The charts normally included...

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British Library

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hand-produced Dieppe maps produced for wealthy Renaissance patrons including one by Pierre Desceliers, the Queen Mary Atlas made by Portuguese map-maker Diogo...

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Beyond Capricorn

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one Dieppe map as the basis for his book, without significant reference to any of the other existing Dieppe maps, has been questioned. The Vallard map of...

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Regio Patalis

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century maps and globes in a variety of increasingly erroneous locations, further and further east and south of India. It even appeared on some maps as a...

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Vallard atlas

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The Vallard Atlas is a world atlas, one of the Dieppe school of maps, produced in 1547. It is believed to have been owned by Nicolas Vallard, its authorship...

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Pierre Desceliers

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has been reported to be another map from 1558, but the catalogue confirms that it was the 1553 map. The Dieppe maps show a precise knowledge of coastlines...

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Guillaume Brouscon

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Dieppe school in the 16th century. He was from the port of Le Conquet, near Brest, which is shown prominently in large red lettering on his 1543 map of...

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Portuguese Renaissance

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in 1502, or the Dieppe maps, commissioned by Henry II of France and Henry VIII of England, which were copies of stolen Portuguese maps of the period. In...

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Cattigara

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America. In this he was followed by Oronce Fine and the makers of the Dieppe Maps but eventually geographers and cartographers had to admit that Cattigara...

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