Diego Ribero

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Diego Ribero

Spanish cosmographer

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In 1529 Diego Ribero, cosmographer to the king of Spain, made a new chart of the world on which the vast extent of the Pacific was first shown. Survivors of Magellan’s circumnavigation of the world had arrived in Sevilla (Seville) in 1522, giving Ribero much new information.
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In 1529 Diego Ribero, cosmographer to the king of Spain, made a new chart of the world on which the vast extent of the Pacific was first shown. Survivors of Magellan’s circumnavigation of the world had arrived in Sevilla (Seville) in 1522, giving Ribero much new information.
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