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Discrección de la costa de Yucatan, Sonda de Campeche y baxos adjacentes segun su antigua situación con la derrota qe. practicaron en solicitud del Nombrado Negrillo sin en contrar le, el Paquebot del Rey titulado Sn. Carlos al mando del teniente de Navio Dn. Manuel de Alderete y el Bergantin San Juan Nepomuzeno al de igual clase Dn. Andrey de Balderrama lo qe. manifiesta la siguiente ; Diseño de la expresada costa y sus baxos correxida segun las mas segurs. noticias, observaciones y sondas mas prals. qe. sehan practicado en este reconocimto. previniendo qe. la extensión qe. seda al Veril es correspondiente a los puntos de sonda allados ahora haslagt. se compruebe mas prolifamte.

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Discrección de la costa de Yucatan, Sonda de Campeche y baxos adjacentes segun su antigua situación con la derrota qe. practicaron en solicitud del Nombrado Negrillo sin en contrar le, el Paquebot del Rey titulado Sn. Carlos al mando del teniente de Navio Dn. Manuel de Alderete y el Bergantin San Juan Nepomuzeno al de igual clase Dn. Andrey de Balderrama lo qe. manifiesta la siguiente ; Diseño de la expresada costa y sus baxos correxida segun las mas segurs. noticias, observaciones y sondas mas prals. qe. sehan practicado en este reconocimto. previniendo qe. la extensión qe. seda al Veril es correspondiente a los puntos de sonda allados ahora haslagt. se compruebe mas prolifamte.

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Shows northern Yucatán Peninsula. Also shows routes of expeditions on 1 map.
Depths shown by soundings.
Watermark: Unidentifiable.
Pen-and-ink and red watercolor.
Mounted on cloth backing.
LC Luso-Hispanic World, 536
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Indexed.
Annotated in brown ink in lower left margin: 34.
Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 75.
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In the 17th century, maps took a huge leap forward. Mathematical and astronomical knowledge necessary to make accurate measurements had evolved. English mathematicians had perfected triangulation: navigation and surveying by right-angled triangles. Triangulation allowed navigators to set accurate courses and produced accurate land surveys. Seamen learned to correct their compasses for declination and had determined the existence of annual compass variation. Latitude determination was greatly improved with the John Davis quadrant. The measurement of distance sailed at sea was improved by another English invention, the common log. Longitudinal distance between Europe and Québec was determined by solar and lunar eclipses by the Jesuit Bressani in the 1640s and by Jean Deshayes in 1686. With accurate surveys in Europe, the grid of the modern map began to take shape.

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01/01/1700
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