Tosco e imperfecto, con mucho de fabulado: El mapa de Francisco de seyxas y lovera de la Región Austral Magallánica

McCarl, Clayton

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“…How reliable is his account? The foremost student of Seyxas is the Hispanist and book historian Clayton McCarl, who in a series of studies (McCarl 2014(McCarl , 2018(McCarl , 2020 has been drawn to the conclusion that Seyxas' publications offer a mixture of fact and fiction. In 2011 Dr McCarl published an edition of a work by Seyxas that had survived in manuscript in the collection of the Hispanic Society of America in New York City.…”

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“…The island that La Roche had discovered soon began to appear on maps. The first was a map of the Région Austral Magallánica that in 1692 Seyxas added to "Atlas Taboas geraes da toda a navegacão" (1630), a manuscript atlas (now in the Library of Congress, G1015.T4 1630) by the Portuguese cartographer João Teixeira Albernaz I (McCarl, 2018(McCarl, , 2020. In 1703, the French cartographer Guillaume Delisle produced a Carte du Paraguay, du Chili, du Detroit de Magellan, which showed Ile de La Roche divided by a strait from a piece of land to the east labelled "terre inconnüe"; the strait is labelled "Detroit de la Roche découvert en 1675" (Delisle, 1703).…”

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“…Whereas in the Descripcion geographica La Roche was an Anglo-French merchant living in London, in Piratas y contrabandistas he is described as an English merchant living in Cádiz. Text attached to a map prepared by Seyxas in 1703 offers more conflicting details: La Roche is said to be a pilot rather than a captain, and he is said to be French rather than English (McCarl, 2020).…”

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Antonio de la Roche and the discovery of South Georgia

Campbell

2023

Polar Record

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This article seeks to investigate the claim that South Georgia may have been first discovered in April 1675 by an English merchant called Antonio de la Roche. There are two unresolved questions: whether La Roche was the first to see the island, and whether the island that he saw was South Georgia. I introduce a third uncertainly by questioning whether Antonio de la Roche ever existed. He does not appear in the records of the French churches in London, and the sole source of his biography is the work of a fabricator, Francisco de Seyxas.

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