The continent of Jave-la-Grande on the mid-16th century manuscript Dieppe maps has been the subject of much speculation for over two hundred years and has been claimed to provide evidence of an early Portuguese discovery of Australia. Mathematical and navigational arguments used by some writers to transform the outline of Jave-la-Grande into something more closely resembling that of Australia, and seeking to 'correct' its location and scale, have proved unsustainable
Queensland historians awake! If you merely accept our history as expressed in the past you will righ...
The paper freshly examines the question of whether Australia was known to ancient peoples in the Med...
This is the latest book claiming that the Portuguese discovered Australia. Belief in the validity of...
The Harleian and other Dieppe maps made in France in the mid-16th century are manifestly based on Po...
Within the last few years historians of cartography have become increasingly aware of the potential ...
For two centuries the landmass named Jave-la-Grande, which appears south of Indonesia on a number of...
Alexander Dalrymple was by no means alone in assuming that Jave-la-Grande was Australia. James Burne...
At top right margin: IV.; From: Histoire des navigations aux terres australes / attributed to Charle...
Recently, two more works have appeared, by Gavin Menzies and Peter Trickett, also claiming that the ...
In this article, written in response to the recent publication of a book by Peter Trickett, 'Beyond ...
The Dutch, under Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken, and the British, under James Cook in the Endeavour,...
Claims that the Spanish and especially the Portuguese discovered Australia before the Dutch and Engl...
In this book Brigadier Fitzgerald summarises the arguments for and against the identification of the...
Too many people today expect early maps and charts of newly discovered lands to have similar standar...
The author examines the writings and maps of Manuel Godinho de Eredia from the early 1600s, and conc...
Queensland historians awake! If you merely accept our history as expressed in the past you will righ...
The paper freshly examines the question of whether Australia was known to ancient peoples in the Med...
This is the latest book claiming that the Portuguese discovered Australia. Belief in the validity of...
The Harleian and other Dieppe maps made in France in the mid-16th century are manifestly based on Po...
Within the last few years historians of cartography have become increasingly aware of the potential ...
For two centuries the landmass named Jave-la-Grande, which appears south of Indonesia on a number of...
Alexander Dalrymple was by no means alone in assuming that Jave-la-Grande was Australia. James Burne...
At top right margin: IV.; From: Histoire des navigations aux terres australes / attributed to Charle...
Recently, two more works have appeared, by Gavin Menzies and Peter Trickett, also claiming that the ...
In this article, written in response to the recent publication of a book by Peter Trickett, 'Beyond ...
The Dutch, under Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken, and the British, under James Cook in the Endeavour,...
Claims that the Spanish and especially the Portuguese discovered Australia before the Dutch and Engl...
In this book Brigadier Fitzgerald summarises the arguments for and against the identification of the...
Too many people today expect early maps and charts of newly discovered lands to have similar standar...
The author examines the writings and maps of Manuel Godinho de Eredia from the early 1600s, and conc...
Queensland historians awake! If you merely accept our history as expressed in the past you will righ...
The paper freshly examines the question of whether Australia was known to ancient peoples in the Med...
This is the latest book claiming that the Portuguese discovered Australia. Belief in the validity of...