JUAN DE LA CRUZ CANO Y OLMEDILLA – Mapa Geográfico de América Meridional, 1775 It is the first modern scientific map of South America. Commissioned by the Secretary of State of Charles III to fix once and for all the limits of the Spanish Empire against Portugal, France and England. It is not a decorative map like Gutiérrez or Ovalle. It is a general staff map. Cano y Olmedilla spent 10 years collecting measurements made by explorers, colonists and missionaries —from Malaspin

THE CITY OF THE CAESARS – The wandering city that invented Chile The founding myth of Patagonia is not a place. It is a displacement. And its first official inscription in Chilean cartography is Alonso de Ovalle's Tabula Geographica Regni Chile of 1646. The myth is born in 1528, not in Chile, but in the Río de la Plata. Sebastián Cabot, in command of a Spanish expedition, ascends the Paraná River. He sends his captain Francisco César westward, to search for the famous Sierra

ALONSO DE OVALLE - TABULA GEOGRAPHICA REGNI CHILE 1646 The map that invents Chile and puts the Caesars on the official record The Tabula Geographica Regni Chile is the map that accompanies the Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile, published in Rome in 1646 by Francisco Cavallo. Ovalle produced two states: Large wall version: large format —117 by 58 cm per Chilean sources, 57 x 116 cm per the John Carter Brown Library copy—. It is a horizontal, east-up map showing Chile

The Emerald Empire and the Andean Athanor: Cartography, Jesuit Networks, and the City of the Caesars Cartography, Jesuit Networks, and the City of the Caesars The American map of Diego Gutiérrez (1562) inaugurated a long-standing tradition of recording the marvelous at the boundaries of the New World. However, by the mid-17th century, this geographical representation evolved from a passive inventory into an engine of mystical, scientific, and spiritual exploration. Through th

The 16th century ushered in an era of expansion where the boundaries of the known world widened through gunpowder and the astrolabe. However, by the 17th century, the accumulation of geographical data became intertwined with mysticism, alchemy, and the desire to decipher the hermetic secrets of creation. The relationship between Diego Gutiérrez’s map of America (1562) and the monumental work Mundus Subterraneus (1665) by the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher illustrates this

DIEGO GUTIÉRREZ – Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova et Exactissima Descriptio, 1562 The map that closes the cycle opened by Waldseemüller and opens the one I investigate in Report / Austral Pilot Chart. Diego Gutiérrez, cosmographer of the Casa de la Contratación in Seville, the institution that centralized all cartography of the Spanish Empire. Editor and engraver: Hieronymus Cock, one of the most important publishers in Antwerp. Year: 1562. Full title: Americae Sive Q

WALDSEEMÜLLER: THE CARTA MARINA OF 1516 Of Martin Waldseemüller's two great wall maps, the Universalis Cosmographia of 1507 is the most famous: it is the birth certificate of the name America. The second, the Carta Marina Navigatoria of 1516, is its correction and is the central object of my project Report / Austral Pilot Chart for the 19th Triennale in Łódź. 1. The erasure of Vespucci. In 1507, Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann, from the Gymnasium Vosagense in Saint-Dié, n

The first Waldseemüller: Universalis Cosmographia 1507 1. Technical file: The first map to name AMERICA and the first to show a separate Western Hemisphere. Full title: Universalis Cosmographia Secunda Ptholomaei Traditionem et Americi Vespucci Aliorumque Lustrationes - "A drawing of the whole earth following the tradition of Ptolemy and the travels of Amerigo Vespucci and others". Author and place: Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann, in the Gymnasium Vosagense, a hum

INFORME DERROTERO AUSTRALIS Carlos Damacio Gómez A graphic investigation from the archive and the document on the origin of a founding fiction of Patagonia: The City of the Caesars. My work starts from a simple question: what made people search for 300 years for a city that never existed? The answer is not in Patagonia. It is on paper. The project articulates engraving, intervened cartography and apocryphal documents to trace the genealogy of that search. A genealogy that is