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Robert Dudley, Map of the Gulf of Mexico, from
his Arcano del Mare, 1646
In England, the counterpart to the Dieppe school (number 19) was the Thames school, which flourished between the 1590s and the 1680s. Curiously, the most famous English nautical atlas of the period owed little to the Thames school, but was compiled in Florence by the exiled Sir Robert Dudley. He drew on a wide range of information to give in his Arcano del Mare a beautifully engraved set of charts that covered much of the world.
Our
detail shows his delineation of the peninsula of Yucatan, with its
characteristically rich set of names, and its remarkably accurate coastlines.
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