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Academia Brasileira de Ciências
2007
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- The representation of Caesalpinia echinata (Brazilwood) in Sixteenth-and-Seventeenth-Century Maps Yuri Tavares Rocha Andrea Presotto Felisberto Cavalheiro Multidisciplinaria (Ciencias Naturales y Exactas) history commerce Brazilwood cartography illumination Brazilwood was the first product found in Terra de Santa Cruz, and the first explored by Portuguese colonization ofBrazil. This study aims at the Occidental Cartography and the historical files represented by Portugals interest onmapping the marketed product found in Brazil. The representation of Brazilwood in maps was possible due to scientificadvancements, new land discoveries, and technological improvement during the 15th century, which all have takencartography to a whole new period, stressing Portuguese hegemony in Asia and in the New World. The goal of thisresearch was to identify and analyze maps from 16th and 17th centuries that represented the geographical distributionof Brazilwood, and its trade. Brazilwood was represented in many maps by illumination and detailed by differentcartographers. The maps and other evidence for this research were found in historical files held in both Brazil andPortugal. 2007 artículo científico 0001-3765 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=32779414 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=327 Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências application/pdf Academia Brasileira de Ciências Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (Brasil) Num.4 Vol.79