http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25168 Sat, 25 May 2013 19:08:44 GMT 2013-05-25T19:08:44Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25849 Title: Northampton on the Welsh Coast? Some Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Sailing Directions Authors: Richardson, W.A.R. Abstract: Those fourteenth-, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mariners who were literate almost certainly relied much more upon sailing directions than upon charts. A mere glance at some of the earliest surviving charts of areas other than the Mediterranean and the Black Sea will show why, for they amounted to little more than aides-memoires. Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25849 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25753 Title: A Critique of Spanish and Portuguese Claims to Have Discovered Australia Authors: Richardson, W.A.R. Abstract: Claims that the Spanish and especially the Portuguese discovered Australia before the Dutch and English have gained a good deal of credence since they were first advanced. The matter is of some interest to the Geelong area particularly as Bonito's treasure at Queenscliff, the Geelong Keys and the Mahogany Ship near Warrnambool are often cited as "evidence". In this article Bill Richardson makes a detailed examination of these claims. Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25753 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25752 Title: Response to Roy Schreiber's review of "Was Australia charted before 1606?" Authors: Richardson, W.A.R. Abstract: The author responds to a review of his book, 'Was Australia Charted before 1606?', justifying his reasoning in point form. Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25752 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25701 Title: Toponymy and the History of Cartography Authors: Richardson, W.A.R. Abstract: Within the last few years historians of cartography have become increasingly aware of the potential value of toponymy for the elucidation of early cartographical enigmas. One of the most notorious of these is the real identity of the apparent continent of Jave-la-Grande which figures exclusively on a number of French manuscript maps made in Dieppe in the mid-sixteenth century. Its position south of Java gave rise to the understandable supposition that it was an inaccurate, primitive map of Australia, since Australia is the only landmass that really does exist very approximately in that position. The east coast of Jave-la-Grande, though vaguely similar to Australia's east coast, has one feature which conspicuously fails to correspond to any on Australia's east coast, namely the huge triangular projection of cap de fremose. Only the most vivid imagination can find any resemblance whatsoever between the two west coasts. Wed, 01 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25701 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z