A Journey Through the Worlds of the Carta de la Provincia de Quito, 1750

Neil Safier, University of British Columbia, leads a discussion of an 18th century map of the Spanish American province of Quito, from its observational origins in the Andes and the compilatory practices of the Spanish American Creole Pedro Vicente Maldonado, to its cartographic transformations in a Parisian atelier and its later fortunes in France, Spain, England and, ultimately, Quito itself. For the reading, click below.