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Do oceano dos clássicos aos mares dos impérios: transformações cartográficas do Atlântico sul
This article explores the various place-names given to the geographic localities in the
South Atlantic by European cartographers in the 16th and 17th centuries. Despite of the fact that
representation of continental space seem to have been more common in mapmaking at the
time than the depiction of oceans and seas, oceanic waters often received particular names -
regional seas - depending on the coastline in combination to the classical names. A series of
connections can be established between this fact and the process of consolidation of slave
trading and competition between empires