José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez travelled at a period when the map still had blanks on it, and filled some of them.
The record lists José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez as priest/scientist/historian/cartographer/journalist. (1737-1799).
José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez was born at Ozumba Municipality in 1737. His recorded nationality is New Spain.
Seventeenth-century voyaging was commercial and Dutch-led, mapping coastlines for companies rather than kings.
He is recorded as astronomer, zoologist and cartographer.
The record of exploration is also a record of the people already living in the places reached.
José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez died in 1799, aged 62. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as astronomer, zoologist and cartographer
