{"id":2239,"date":"2021-08-21T16:56:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:43:36","slug":"fritz-map-of-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/cabinet\/naturalia\/fritz-map-of-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fritz map of Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our current vision of the Amazon River was pioneered by Samuel Fritz. A member of the Society of Jesus, he left his native Bohemia \u2013 today\u2019s Czechia \u2014 for South America in 1686 and remained in the Jesuit province of Quito, today\u2019s Ecuador, until 1725. Fritz is perhaps best known for authoring a map of the Amazon River, engraved in Quito in 1707. As an object of knowledge, scholars have praised Fritz\u2019s map for its detailed ethnographic and scientific information and, interestingly, as one of the silenced sources of the Frenchman Charles- Marie de la Condamine, head of the scientific exploration to the Amazon River and author of a map and travel account of the region, <em>Relation abr\u00e9g\u00e9e d\u2019un voyage fait dans l\u2019int\u00e9rieur del\u2019Am\u00e9rique m\u00e9ridionale<\/em>. An unattended aspect of Fritz\u2019s map, however, was its objective to amend European and specifically Portuguese longitudinal representations of the Amazon with a view that privileged its Peruvian headwaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our current vision of the Amazon River was pioneered by Samuel Fritz. A member of the Society of Jesus, he left his native Bohemia \u2013 today\u2019s Czechia \u2014 for South America in 1686 and remained in the Jesuit province of Quito, today\u2019s Ecuador, until 1725. Fritz is perhaps best known for authoring a map of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naturalia","tag-amazon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}