Another Portuguese source from the same period, the Atlas Miller (aka Miller Atlas or Lopo Homem-Reineis Atlas — Paris, BnF, GE DD-683), also depicts Sunda as an island, suggesting this was the standard view among the Portuguese at the time. The Atlas was drawn in 1519 by Lopo Homem, Pedro Reinel, and collaborators, and shows the entire world then known to the Portuguese, including notably <MVNDVS NOVVS> ‘the New World’, with a reasonably accurate depiction of the coast of Brazil. (1) The captions are in Latin in a beautiful hand, and whimsical illustrations have been liberally strewn about the pages, among them parrots and ships and the supposedly floating tomb of Muhammad (pbuh), incorrectly placed at <MECHA>. (2)
A review of Atlas Hugged
This review of Atlas Hugged was initially formed during a book club arranged by David Sloan Wilson and the organisation he founded Pro Social World. The book club (where consent…