thumb |left |Melchisédech Thévenot's Hollandia Nova—Terre Australe in his travel anthology () published in 1664, and which seems to be a copy of Archipelagus Orientalis sive Asiaticus by Joan Blaeu in the Atlas of the Great Elector () from 1659. The latitude staff depicted by Thévenot falls along the Zaragoza antimeridian from the Treaty of Zaragoza of 1529 between Castile and Portugal, and which complemented the Tordesillas meridian from the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494.
thumb |left |Melchisédech Thévenot's Hollandia Nova—Terre Australe in his travel anthology () published in 1664, and which seems to be a copy of Archipelagus Orientalis sive Asiaticus by Joan Blaeu in the Atlas of the Great Elector () from 1659. The latitude staff depicted by Thévenot falls along the Zaragoza antimeridian from the Treaty of Zaragoza of 1529 between Castile and Portugal and which comp,lemented the Tordesillas meridian from the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494.