Transcript
  • 00:01    |    
    Initial credits
  • 00:24    |    
    Introduction
    • Battista Agnese atlas
    • Overview of presentation
  • 05:27    |    
    Portolan charts
    • Oldest surviving portolan chart
    • Origin
    • Time line
    • Caribbean Sea
    • Earliest portolan chart of the New World
    • Cantino map
    • Peter Martyr map
    • First maps with Central American coastline
    • Alessandro Zorzi's map
  • 16:47    |    
    Portolan charts of the Bay of Honduras
    • First portolan chart
    • Castiglioni chart
    • Pedro Reinel chart
    • Girolamo Verranzano chart
    • Jean Rotz atlas
    • Vallard atlas
    • Portuguese charts
      • Bartolomeu Velho chart
      • Diogo Homen chart
      • Fernão Vaz Dourado chart
      • Joan Martines chart
      • Jacques Dousaigo atlas
    • Dutch charts
    • English charts
    • Last portolan charts
    • Mercator projection
    • Printed maps
    • Volcanic chain map
  • 38:45    |    
    Question and answer period
    • Vallard atlas at the Huntington Library
    • What would a map of the Yucatan 2,000 years ago look like?
    • How accurate was the last chart you showed us? How much was known about the Pacific coast in the 16th century?
    • How did the Spanish policy of secrecy affect their production of portolan charts?
    • Who was the artist of the Peter Martyr portrait?
    • Did the Treaty of Tordesillas affect the production of Portuguese charts?
    • Did Lake Nicaragua have an outlet to the Caribbean Sea?
    • Would you comment on the production of sea charts after 1550?
  • 52:20    |    
    Coastal variants and the port of Veracruz
  • 53:12    |    
    Final words
  • 53:34    |    
    Final credits


Portolan Charts of the Bay of Honduras

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Credits

Portolan Charts of the Bay of Honduras
Richard Pflederer

Juan Bautista Gutiérrez Auditorium
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Guatemala, February 6, 2007

New Media - UFM production. Guatemala, February 2007
Camera 1: Jorge Samayoa; camera 2: Joni Vásquez; digital editing: Rodrigo Escalante; index: Christiaan Ketelaar; content revisers: Katty Schellenger, Jennifer Keller; publication: Pedro David España


Conferencista

Richard Pflederer is adjunct professor at Old Dominion University. An avid…