Bartolomeu Velho - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Bartolomeu Velho was a sixteenth-century Portuguese mapmaker and cosmographer.

Velho prepared the Carta General do Orbe in 1561 for Sebastian of Portugal

Sebastian of Portugal

Sebastian "the Desired" was the 16th king of Portugal and the Algarves. He was the son of Prince John of Portugal and his wife, Joan of Spain...

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

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