The World Map before and after Magellan's Voyage Author(s): Edward Heawood Source: The Geographical Journal, Vol. 57, No. 6 (Jun., 1921), pp. 431-442 Published by: geographicalj Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1780791 Accessed: 23-02-2016 13:36 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Wiley and Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Geographical Journal. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 130.237.29.138 on Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:36:42 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions ( 43i ) THE WORLD MAP BEFORE AND AFTER MAGELLAN'S VOYAGE Edward Heawood, Librarian, R.G.S. Read at the Afternoon Meeting of the Society, n April 1921. hundred years ago, in April 1521, died Fernao de Magalhaes, FOUR more familiarly known to Englishmen as Ferdinand Magellan, perhaps the greatest of the world's great navigators, the first to venture across the vast extent of the Pacific Ocean, and by so doing to virtually, if not actually, achieve the first circumnavigation of the globe.