_ 254 _ been shown that Jean Roze's (or Rotz) 1542 French atlas was copied from the earlier of these. Hence, we know that there was a Portuguese cartographer who was living in France and who influenced the first French cartographers. Would Mollat be able to name this Portuguese cartographer? M. Mollat I thank Cdr Teixeira da Mota for the additional information that he has provided. As for the answer to his question, I suspect that M.Destombes or he himself are the people who might give it. I should like to ask him whether these charts are in any way related to those used by the Verrazzano brothers. Cdr Teixeira da Mota I was asking myself that very question in the course of your talk. The map in the 1538 atlas is different from the Verrazzano one. It follows a Spanish prototype and has nothing in common with Verrazzano's. Incidentally, the 1538 Hague atlas shows the Atlantic only, whereas the 1542 atlas is a universal one. This is also the first atlas to show the southern continent, which was to be characteristic of the so-called Dieppe school of cartography. It used to be thought that the Portuguese had failed to reveal the existence of that
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