State Secrets: The Cantino Planisphere and the Charts of Empire

How chart-making became statecraft: Alberto Cantino's 1502 theft of Portugal's world map, Spain's Casa de Contratación, the Dieppe school's Vallard Atlas, the first maps of the New World and the trade routes they charted.

Playlist by @age_of_charts

7 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The Map Stolen From a King in 1502 With Details That Shouldn't Exist — Historical Vault
2. SECRET MAPS – Exhibition Private View — British Library
3. The 1524 Cortés Map of Tenochtitlán, Mexico — newberrylibrary
4. Mapping New World Peoples in Renaissance Europe — Library of Congress
5. Atlas Vallard (1547) -(V.English) www.moleiro.com — Moleiro Editor
6. A very expensive atlas — Smarthistory
7. History of the Major Trade Routes - Summary on a Map — Geo History