15 The World shown on the Waldseemueller ( Western Hemisphere) and the Albertin di Virga (Eastern Hemisphere) – combined

The whole world is shown on these two maps – all continents and all the oceans accurately displayed before Europeans reached those parts. In short the Pacific was shown before Balboa ‘discovered’ the ocean and before Magellan set sail. Australia appears on the 1410 chart three and a half centuries before Captain Cook; Africa is  drawn with its triangular shape 10 years before the first of Henry the Navigator’s caravels set sail. Brave and determined as they were, Dias, Cabral, da Gama, Columbus, Magellan, Ponce de Leon, Coronado, Verrazano, Cabrillo and Captain Cook discovered nothing new. The whole concept of the ‘European Voyages of Exploration’ is a fairy story. Antonio Galvao spoke the truth all those years ago when he claimed (‘1421’ – ch 4)

“… In the yeere 1428 it is written that Dom Peter, the king of Portugal’s eldest sonne was a great traveller. He went into England France, Almaine (Germany) and from thence into the Holy land, and to other places; and came home by Italie, taking Rome and Venice on his way: from whence he brought a map of the world, which had all the parts of the world and earth described. The Straight of Magelan was called in it the dragons taile: The cape of Boa Esperanca, the forefront of Afrike and so forth of other places: by which map Dom Henry the kings third sonne was much helped and furthered in his discoveries…”