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Tabula Californiae, anno 1702: ex autoptica observatione delineata a R.P. Chino è S.I by Eusebio Kino
Eusebius Kino (or Kühn; b. 1644 in Welschtirol, d. 1711) was a famous Jesuit who established many missions across what is now California, Southern Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico. Kino’s detailed reports and cartographical sketches of California provided Europeans with precious information about an otherwise largely unknown part of the world. He went on a daring overland expedition from Sonora to California to confirm that Baja California was a peninsula rather than an island. An expert in mathematics and cartography, Kino produced the first accurate European maps of the state. This is a copy of his 1702 map of California, which clearly outlines the Baja peninsula.
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