A map of Lower California

Copperplate map of the California Peninsula and the Gulf of California from 1598 by Cornelius van Wytfleet, taken from his work "Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum ...", the first independent atlas of America. Despite being one of the fundamental works in the history of cartography, his maps are relatively poor in toponymy, even in the context of the time in which they were made, and the Granata Nova et California is no exception. The terrain is only indicated in some places by the hill method, and the Pacific Ocean is curiously portrayed, with a line through it representing the Tropic of Cancer ( incorrectly marked on the map as the Tropic of Capricorn).