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July 16, 2007
Encompassing the Globe
The Smithsonian Institute has a special exhibition through September 16th at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery which is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The exhibition is called "Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries". I'm really disappointed I just found out about it, because I was in Washington just two weeks ago - and I really enjoy learning about the early great mariners and explorers. The exhibition tells the tale of early exploration and world trade by the Portuguese and has all kinds of cartographical delights. Not only that, but the Smithsonian Institute has put together a Google Earth file 
to whet your appetite and help you learn a bit about the travels during this period. Definitely worth a look if you are at all interested in the history of early global exploration, world trade, and mapping. The new file is featured at the Google Earth Gallery this week.
Posted by FrankTaylor at July 16, 2007 08:23 AM
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Posted by: Larry Cebula at July 23, 2007 12:24 AM
It is oficial that Brazil was discovered by chance. Please compare the routes of Cabral and Vasco da Gama they perfectly match until the latitude of Canarias and then Cabral travels thousands of kilometers to west and (re)discovers Brazil then it converges again to the route of Vasco da Gama at south Africa. Remember that in the crew of Cabral was Bartolomeu Dias, the first european to round Cape of Good Hope.
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Posted by: Alexandre Neves at July 31, 2007 06:20 PM
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Gasp! This is amazing. How can I do things like this in Google Earth? I am a history professor and I want to make my next seminar do a group project like this in Google Earth. We could chart North American explorers, or perhaps the Chinese in the west.