What is it about?
The aim is to see how some features of the topographic maps that were developed in the 18th century can be observed in sixteenth-century manuscript maps.
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Why is it important?
This study brings to light some characteristics that can suppose the origins of the contour lines in manuscript maps made almost three centuries before the concept of level curve was systematized by the topography of the XVIII century.
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This article is the result of a more extensive research developed in my doctoral thesis in which I study the representation of the territory in Spanish America during the sixteenth century.
Dr Manuel Morato-Moreno
Universidad de Sevilla
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This page is a summary of: Orígenes de la representación topográfica del terreno en algunos mapas hispanoamericanos del siglo XVI, Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, April 2017, Buletin Asociacion Geografos Espanoles,
DOI: 10.21138/bage.2414.
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