Bartolomeu Velho Explained

Bartolomeu Velho (died 1568) was a sixteenth-century Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer.^[1]

Velho prepared the Carta General do Orbe (General Chart of the Globe) in 1561 for Sebastian of Portugal.

He moved to France where he worked on his treatise Cosmographia which was published in Paris in 1568, the year of his death.

Further reading

• Book: Meirinhos, José Francisco . From Wisdom to Data: Philosophical atlas on visual representations of knowledge . 2022 . 978-989-746-315-0 . Higuera . José G. . University of Porto Press . Porto . Celestial Bodies and Dimension of the Universe in Bartolomeu Velho’s Cosmographia . https://www.academia.edu/72948925/Celestial_Bodies_and_Dimension_of_the_Universe_in_Bartolomeu_Velho_s_Cosmographia.
• Book: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Brazilian History and Culture . 2022 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-091869-9 . Palacios . Guillermo . Cartography in the Administration of Portuguese America from the 16th to 18th Centuries . online.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Museo Galileo - Bartolomeu Velho. catalogue.museogalileo.it. Museo Galileo - Florence. 15 July 2016.