- Source: Bartolomeu Velho
Bartolomeu Velho (died 1568) was a sixteenth-century Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer.
Velho prepared the Carta General do Orbe (General Chart of the Globe) in 1561 for Sebastian of Portugal.
He moved to France where he worked on his treatise Cosmographia which was published in Paris in 1568, the year of his death.
References
Further reading
Meirinhos, José Francisco (2022). "Celestial Bodies and Dimension of the Universe in Bartolomeu Velho's Cosmographia". In Higuera, José G. (ed.). From Wisdom to Data: Philosophical atlas on visual representations of knowledge. Porto: University of Porto Press. ISBN 978-989-746-315-0.
Palacios, Guillermo, ed. (2022). "Cartography in the Administration of Portuguese America from the 16th to 18th Centuries". The Oxford Encyclopedia of Brazilian History and Culture (online ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-091869-9.
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