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Lecture | The Maps of Jan Huyghen van Linschoten

Saturday, April 5, 2014, 2:30 pm

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With Frederik Muller.

In 1583, young Jan Huyghen sailed to the Portuguese colony of Goa, where he was employed as a clerk to the Archbishop. During his six years there, he had access to information about wind patterns, currents, coastlines, charts, pilot’s notes, customs, and countries—top-secret data which enabled the Portuguese to maintain their monopoly of European trade in the Far East for a hundred years.

While in Goa, Huyghen (he added “van Linschoten” later) kept detailed travel accounts; when he returned to the Netherlands, he published them. His Itinerario (1596) provided crucial information allowing the English and the Dutch to break the Portuguese trade monopoly. The book contained drawings and maps, some drawn by Linschoten from his personal observations. In later years, he was the mapmaker on two abortive Dutch expeditions in search of the Northeast Passage.

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