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Paul Gallez (1920–2007) was an Argentinian cartographer and historian, born in
Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
, and based on the city of
Bahía Blanca Bahía Blanca (; English: White Bay) is a city in the southwest of the provinces of Argentina, province of Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires, Argentina, by the Atlantic Ocean, and is the seat of government of the Bahía Blanca Partido. It had 3 ...
,
province of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (), officially the Buenos Aires Province (''Provincia de Buenos Aires'' ), is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of th ...
,
Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
. He made an extensive research on maps to show that
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was known long before the
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, inspired by previous works by
Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso (17 January 1914 – 13 July 2000) was an Argentine researcher who explored the possibility of colonization of the Americas by several antique ethnic groups. He suggested that the coasts of Ecuador and Peru could be ...
and
Enrique de Gandía Enrique de Gandía (February 1, 1906, in Buenos Aires – July 18, 2000) was an Argentine historian, author of over a hundred books. He taught, as a professor of School of Fine Arts (1948), the University of Morón (1960) and the University of B ...
. He was the first to identify all the principal fluvial system of
South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...
in the
Henricus Martellus Germanus Henricus Martellus Germanus ( fl. 1480-1496) was a German cartographer active in Florence between 1480 and 1496. His surviving cartographic work includes manuscripts of Ptolemy's ''Geographia'', manuscripts of ''Insularium illustratum'' (a descri ...
map of 1489, using a distortion grid. He considers that fellow historians and himself constitutes the so-called Argentine School of Protocartography.


Publications

* 1990 La Cola del Dragón. América del Sur en los mapas antiguos, medievales y renacentistas. 185 pp., 53 ilus. in-8º. B. Blanca, Instituto Patagónico. * 1991 Cristobal de Haro. Banqueros y pimenteros en busca del estrecho magállanico. 112 pp., 22 ilustr. in-8º. B. Blanca, Instituto Patagónico. * 1999 Protocartografia y exploraciones. 132 pp., 32 mapas, 6 illust. Bahía Blanca, Inst. Patag. * Walsperger and His Knowledge of the Patagonian Giants, 1448. In: Imago Mundi. The international journal for the history of cartography. Thaylor & Francis, London 1981 (Jg. 33), S. 91-93 * Problems of regional planning in semi arid countries, The Annals of Regional Science Volume 4, Number 2, 36-42, * Les travaux de l'Ecole Argentine de Protocartographie Archives internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, Vol. XXVIII, Nº102, pp. 119–120, 1978, Wiesbaden, Germany


See also

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Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso (17 January 1914 – 13 July 2000) was an Argentine researcher who explored the possibility of colonization of the Americas by several antique ethnic groups. He suggested that the coasts of Ecuador and Peru could be ...
*
Enrique de Gandía Enrique de Gandía (February 1, 1906, in Buenos Aires – July 18, 2000) was an Argentine historian, author of over a hundred books. He taught, as a professor of School of Fine Arts (1948), the University of Morón (1960) and the University of B ...
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Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that possible visits to the Americas, possible interactions with the indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from Africa, Asia, Europe, ...


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South America on ancient, medieval and Renaissance maps
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gallez, Paul Belgian emigrants to Argentina 20th-century Argentine historians Argentine male writers Argentine cartographers Argentine geographers 1920 births 2007 deaths Scientists from Brussels 20th-century geographers Male non-fiction writers 20th-century cartographers