Cultural Readings - Encisco

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Encisco
Jay I. Kislak Foundation Martin Fernández de Encisco,
Suma de geographia q trata de todas las partidas y provincias del mundo: en especial de las Indias.
Seville: Andres de Burgos, 1546.

First published in 1519, Encisco's world geography manual is unusual because of the attention it gives to Spanish discoveries in the New World. It is surely one of the earliest, if not the earliest, such work in Spain to incorporate the New World into a description of the "world" as a whole.

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Jay I. Kislak Foundation	Martin Fernández de Encisco, Suma de geographia q trata de todas las partidas y provincias del mundo: en especial de las Indias. Seville: Andres de Burgos, 1546.
First published in 1519, Encisco's world geography manual is unusual because of the attention it gives to Spanish discoveries in the New World. It is surely one of the earliest, if not the earliest, such work in Spain to incorporate the New World into a description of the "world" as a whole.