Contribution of the Jesuits from the Bohemian province to the cartography of the present-day Northwestern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest (17th and 18th centuries)

Abstract

This study is a contribution to the history of cartography of colonial Mexico (and its nowadays boundery to the USA). Presents and compares maps of this region, which authors were jesuit missionaries from the Bohemian province of the Society of Jesus.

Indicates their known variants and their use by the scientific expeditions of the Enlightment era.

Keywords

• history of cartography
• 17th and 18th centuries
• New Spain
• Mexico
• Sonora
• Pimería
• USA
• Arizona
• New Mexico
• rivers Gila, Colorado, Yaqui
• jesuits
• missionaries
• Czech lands