English charting of the river Amazon<i>c</i>.1595‐<i>c</i>. 1630

Tyacke, Sarah

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“…The James River chart was made the same year that a Dutch cartographer copied and revised a Portuguese chart of Guiana. Another map composed by an Englishman (to judge from its English measurements) is also in the Dutch archives, which testifies to the perceived value of such charts (Tyacke, 1980). Dutch maritime cartography, of course, was highly developed at this time, a 'golden age' that drew international attention and appreciation (most recently Schilder, 2013, andSchilder 2017 for Dutch contemporaries).…”

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Marmaduke Raynor and the 1617 Map of the James River, Virginia

Rose¹

2021

The Cartographic Journal

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Who deserves credit for the map of detailed soundings taken in the James River in the summer of 1617, the foundation for all subsequent navigation in Virginia for the next half century? This essay proposes that the chartmaker is not a pirate, as previously suggested, but one Marmaduke Raynor, a trained and experienced seaman who might have been commissioned by the Virginia Company of London as part of a new initiative. The original map is no longer extant, but was copied, perhaps surreptitiously, and then used by the famous Dutch mapmakers of the Vingboons family for their chart of the 'Powhatan River' of 1639.

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Marmaduke Raynor and the 1617 Map of the James River, Virginia

Rose¹

2021

The Cartographic Journal

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“…Their location near the mouths of rivers indicated an intention to travel and settle riverine regions and even vast watershed areas. 85 It seems logical to assume that the significance attached to estuary forts and settlements reflected the wide circulation of analogies from the Roman private law for the acquisition of property through occupation. The Portuguese captain Diogo Cão erected a padrão, or stone column, at the mouth of the Congo River on his first voyage in 1483; when he returned three years later and traveled to the fall line, his men made carvings in the cliff face to mark their progress.…”

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“…Estuary settlements announced the intention to extend dominion inland. 85 It seems logical to assume that the significance attached to estuary forts and settlements reflected the wide circulation of analogies from the Roman private law for the acquisition of property through occupation.…”

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Acquiring Empire by Law: From Roman Doctrine to Early Modern European Practice

Benton¹,

Straumann²

2010

Law hist. rev.

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What role did the Roman legal concept of res nullius (things without owners), or the related concept of terra nullius (land without owners), play in the context of early modern European expansion? Scholars have provided widely different answers to this question. Some historians have argued that European claims based on terra nullius became a routine part of early modern interimperial politics, particularly as a response by the English and French crowns to expansive Iberian claims supported by papal donations. Others have countered that allusions to terra nullius marked a temporary phase of imperial discourse and that claimants relied more often on other rationales for empire, rarely mentioning res nullius or terra nullius and often explicitly recognizing the ownership rights, and even the sovereignty, of local polities and indigenous peoples.In sorting out these arguments and counterarguments about res nullius and terra nullius, we find that scholars on both sides of the debate have relied on relatively unexamined assertions about the Roman legal concepts and the way they were being used in and outside early modern Europe. A common error is to conflate the idea that Europeans were deeply influenced by Roman law with the assumption that they were very familiar with Roman law concepts. Scholars' assessments of terra nullius tend also to collapse multifaceted arguments and actions taking place at many levels of imperial activity, assuming, for example, the existence of direct and clear connections between the writings of jurists and

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Instruments of Acquisition and Reflections of Desire: English Nautical Charts and Islamic Shores, 1650–1700

Maeer

2019

Britain in the Islamic World

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English charting of the river Amazonc.1595‐c. 1630

Cited by 4 publications

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Marmaduke Raynor and the 1617 Map of the James River, Virginia

Marmaduke Raynor and the 1617 Map of the James River, Virginia

Acquiring Empire by Law: From Roman Doctrine to Early Modern European Practice

Instruments of Acquisition and Reflections of Desire: English Nautical Charts and Islamic Shores, 1650–1700

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