2007

Patricia Seed

  • Professor
  • University of California, Irvine
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Project

The Development of Mapping on the West and South Coasts of Africa by Portuguese Navigators and Cartographers from 1434-1504

Program

ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships

Department

History

Abstract

The project digitally analyzes the earliest nautical charts of western and southern Africa both to discover their method of construction and to locate African communities and landscapes on the eve of contact with Europeans.