cartographers

Updated: June 29, 2025

The world had been circumnavigated; Drake had passed up the western coast and yet cartographers, the learned, and those who took the word from the learned, strangely visualized the North American mainland as narrow indeed. Apparently, they conceived it as a kind of extended Central America. The huge rivers puzzled them.

Mary Johnston - Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings

Here he established an observatory, and a seminary for the training of theoretical and practical navigators. He summoned thither astronomers and cartographers and skilled seamen, while he caused stouter and larger vessels to be built for the express purpose of exploration.

Joseph Jacobs - The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known