New Granada and the Island of California (1666)

Milhaud 2024-07-18
New Granada and the Island of California (1666)

This map appeared in the first edition of the From Zee Atlas ofte Water-Weereld (Atlas of the Sea or Water World), published by Pieter Goos in 1666.

The island of California is one of the most popular cartographic errors in Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries. Mainly by copying from one map to another, many cartographers drew the California peninsula as if it were an island.

This map is one of the few that focuses on the representation of California as an island as the central part of the cartographic piece. Pieter Goos produced many more editions of his atlas later, in 1668, 1669, 1670, 1675, and 1676, all of them with this same error.

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