Originally published as Cartografia da Promessa: Potosi e o Brasil em um continente chamado Peruana by Editora Intermeios in 2020.
The research on which this book is based has been funded by CNPq-Brazil and the translation has been supported by Capes-Brazil.
Cover illustrations: (In the background) LuÃs Teixeira, Carta Atlântica, ca. 1600. BNCF Portolano 27. Courtesy of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. (On the left side) Detail of the title page of Gerard Mercator and Henricus and Jodocus Hondiusâ Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et fabricati figura, 1630. Biblioteca Nacional de España. GMG/1108. Courtesy of the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
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