Obscuris Secreta: Revela Nondum Cognita
From spain and portugal’s claims to the hypothetical terra. Sed nondum plene cognita” (recently discovered [i. e. , by magellan] but not yet fully known), printed right across finaeus’s terra australis. The strip of land which unites southern africa. There could scarcely be a clearer statement by. For nearly two millennia some europeans believed that a vast, wealthy, and peopled continent, terra australis incognita, lay in the southern ocean, and acted as a stabilizing counterweight.
From spain and portugal’s claims to the hypothetical terra. Terra australis nondum cognita was being reduced in size, and in the approaching decades of the early 17th century, australia would begin to take shape on the world map. There could scarcely be a clearer statement by. Sed nondum plene cognita” (recently discovered [i. e. , by magellan] but not yet fully known), printed right across finaeus’s terra australis. On ortelius' map it.
