Luo Hongxian

Chinese cartographer

In the history of exploration, Luo Hongxian is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Luo Hongxian as Chinese cartographer.

Luo Hongxian was born at Jiangxi in 1504. His recorded nationality is Ming dynasty.

The Age of Discovery was driven by Iberian crowns, the caravel and the search for a sea route to the spice trade - and it opened the Atlantic world with consequences its sailors never intended.

He is recorded as cartographer.

Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.

Luo Hongxian died in 1564, aged 60. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.

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