Orontius Finæus.

Orontius Finæus was one of these later compromisers in cartography, in a map which he is supposed to have made in 1531, but which appeared the next year in the Novus Orbis (1532) of Simon Grynæus, and was used in some later publications also. We find in this map, about the Gulf of Mexico, the names which Cortes had applied in his map of 1520 mingled with those of the Asiatic coast of Marco Polo. We annex a sketch of this map as reduced by Brevoort to Mercator's projection. A map very similar to this and of about the same date is preserved in the British Museum among the Sloane manuscripts, and the same bold solution of the difficulty is found in the Nancy globe of about 1540, and in the globe of Gaspar Vopel of 1543.

THE NANCY GLOBE.
[2nd part]
[THE NANCY GLOBE. (complete view)]

Johann Schöner.

There is a good instance of the instability of geographical knowledge at this time in the conversion of Johann Schöner from a belief in an insular North America, to which he had clung in his globes of 1515 and 1520, to a position which he took in 1533, in his Opusculum Geographicum, where he maintains that the city of Mexico is the Quinsay of Marco Polo.

ORONTIUS FINÆUS, 1532.
[After Cimelinus's Copperplate of 1566.]