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- Guillaume_Le_Testu abstract "Guillaume Le Testu, sometimes referred to as Guillaume Le Têtu (c. 1509–12 — April 29, 1573) was a French privateer, explorer and navigator. He was one of the foremost cartographers of his time and an author of the Dieppe maps. His maps were distinguished by their sophistication and detail; they influenced generations of cartographers, navigators and explorers.Le Testu was successful as a privateer during the early years of the French Wars of Religion. In 1573, he and Sir Francis Drake attacked a Spanish mule train escorting gold and silver to Nombre de Dios on the Atlantic coast of Panama, and he was subsequently killed following his capture by the Spanish.Suggestions that Le Testu may have mapped (or even visited) Australia are based on: first, his maps' depiction of a large island (or continent), south of Java, which Le Testu identified as the Jave la Grande ("Java Major" or "Great Java") mentioned by Marco Polo (and was otherwise known at the time as Terra Australis) and second, Le Testu's incorporation in these maps of birds that resemble black swans and cassowaries, which are both native to Australia. However, he did not claim to have seen Jave la Grande in person and many cartographers at the time incorporated hypothetical, mythological or fantastic elements, a practice that is clearly also true of Le Testu. His maps also showed unicorns and monstrous creatures such as 200 metre long giant snakes, basilisks, satyrs, Blemmyes (headless humans) and Cynocephalics (dog-headed humans).Le Testu's work was used by Admiral Gaspard de Coligny and French Huguenots hoping to establish themselves in Brazil, Florida, the Caribbean and even the Terra Australis derived from Le Testu's "Jave la Grande". However, these attempts were abandoned following Coligny's assassination in 1572 and Le Testu's death the following year.".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu alias "Guillaume Le Tetu".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu birthDate "1509-01-01".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu birthPlace Le_Havre.
- Guillaume_Le_Testu birthYear "1509".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu deathCause Decapitation.
- Guillaume_Le_Testu deathDate "1573-04-29".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu deathPlace Nombre_de_Dios,_Col%C3%B3n.
- Guillaume_Le_Testu deathPlace Nombre_de_Dios,_Colón.
- Guillaume_Le_Testu deathPlace Nombre_de_Dios_River.
- Guillaume_Le_Testu deathPlace Panama.
- Guillaume_Le_Testu deathYear "1573".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu knownFor Dieppe_maps.
- Guillaume_Le_Testu nationality France.
- Guillaume_Le_Testu occupation Cartography.
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- Guillaume_Le_Testu occupation Privateer.
- Guillaume_Le_Testu religion Protestantism.
- Guillaume_Le_Testu stateOfOrigin France.
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- Guillaume_Le_Testu birthDate "c. 1509".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu birthPlace "Le Havre, Normandy, France".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu dateOfBirth "1509-01-01".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu dateOfDeath "1573-04-29".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu deathCause Decapitation.
- Guillaume_Le_Testu deathDate "1573-04-29".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu deathPlace "near Nombre de Dios, Panama".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu hasPhotoCollection Guillaume_Le_Testu.
- Guillaume_Le_Testu knownFor "Cartographer of the Dieppe maps and world atlas in 1555; alleged to have been the first European to map Australia.".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu name "Guillaume Le Testu".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu name "Le Testu, Guillaume".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu nationality "French".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu occupation "Explorer, navigator, cartographer and privateer".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu otherNames "Guillaume Le Tetu".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu placeOfBirth "Le Havre, Normandy, France".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu placeOfDeath "near Nombre de Dios, Panama".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu quote "(The present Figure contains a part of Jave la Grande [Java Major], which is situated in the southern part in the Temperate Zone. The inhabitants of it are Idolaters, ignorant of God, and in it grows Nutmeg with Cloves, and several other kinds of fruits and spices... This is La Grant Jave [Java Major], and La Petite Jave [Java Minor] in which there are eight Kingdoms. The men of these two Countries are Idolaters and wicked. Several manner of spices grow in these two Regions, such as Nutmeg, Cloves, and other spices... This Land is part of the so-called Terra Australis, to us Unknown, so that which is marked herein is only from Imagination and uncertain opinion; for some say that La Grant Jave [Java Major] which is the eastern Coast of it is the same land of which the western Coast forms the Strait of Magellan, and that all of this land is joined together... This Part is the same Land of the south called Austral, which has never yet been discovered, for there is no account of anyone having yet found it, and therefore nothing has been remarked of it but from Imagination. I have not been able to describe any of its resources, and for this reason I leave speaking further of it until more ample discovery has been made, and as much as I have written and annoted names to several of its capes this has only been to align the pieces depicted herein to the views of others and also so that those who navigate there be on their guard when they are of opinion that they are approaching the said Land... This piece is a part of the Southland or Terra Australis, from Imagination situated under the Frigid Zone, forasmuch as some are of the opinion that the Land of the Strait of Magellan and La Grande Java [Java Major] are joined together. This is not yet known for certain, and for this Reason I am unable to describe its Resources.)".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu quote "Cosmographie Universelle selon les Navigateurs, tant anciens que modernes .".
- Guillaume_Le_Testu religion Protestantism.
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- Guillaume_Le_Testu subject Category:Huguenots.
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- Guillaume_Le_Testu comment "Guillaume Le Testu, sometimes referred to as Guillaume Le Têtu (c. 1509–12 — April 29, 1573) was a French privateer, explorer and navigator. He was one of the foremost cartographers of his time and an author of the Dieppe maps. His maps were distinguished by their sophistication and detail; they influenced generations of cartographers, navigators and explorers.Le Testu was successful as a privateer during the early years of the French Wars of Religion.".
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