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Chet Van Duzer, « Changing Ideas about the Oceans Reflected in the World Maps of Martin Waldseemüller », Terra Brasilis, ID : 10.4000/terrabrasilis.4292
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The article opens with a brief look at evidence that in classical antiquity and the Middle Ages the ocean was seen as a place of great danger. It then proceeds to look at changes in ideas about the ocean in the early modern period through world maps made by Martin Waldseemüller in 1507 and 1516. His earlier map has a number of texts about sea monsters, suggesting that the cartographer still saw the ocean as dangerous, while his later map has an image of King Manuel of Portugal riding a sea monster to indicate Portugal's control of the sea route around Africa to Asia, indicating that the ocean was thought of rather as a space that humans could master, and across which trade could be conducted.