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==Later cartography==
This cosmographical concept was exhibited in the mid-sixteenth century mappemondes of the [[Dieppe maps|School of mapmakers centred at Dieppe]], Normandy, which in later times gave rise to the idea that Australia may have been discovered by Europeans long before the Dutch began to chart its coast in 1606 or before James Cook charted its east coast in 1770. This is seen clearly in Jean Rotz's ''Lande of Java'' of 1542, the Dauphin Map or Harleian World Map of c. 1547,<ref>[http://imagesonline.bl.uk/en/asset/show_zoom_window_popup_img.html?asset=12391 Dauphin Map [Harley World Map<nowiki>]</nowiki>, France; 1547] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313092647/http://imagesonline.bl.uk/en/asset/show_zoom_window_popup_img.html?asset=12391 |date=2016-03-13 }}
[[File:Australia_first_map.jpg|left|thumb|300x300px|Details of the map of the Grande Jave by Nicolas Vallard (1547)]]
Vincenzo Coronelli, on his ''Terrestrial Globe'' made in Venice in 1688, referred to the uncertainty regarding the location of Marco Polo's Java Minor, noting that while in the opinion of some it could be identified with Sumatra, others believed it to be Sumbawa or New Holland. His inscription reads: "Various are the opinions of the Geographers concerning the location of ''Giava minore'', some placing it under the Tropic of Capricorn, in accordance with what Marco Polo wrote in bk.3, cap.13. Others believe it to be Sumatra from the distance which the same Polo assigned to it, others take it for the Island of Sumbawa, and some others, more modern, for New Holland. We, from so much variety of opinion, do not offer a final conclusion on the matter, leaving the dispute undecided."<ref>"Della Giava Minore. Varie sono appresso li Geografi l'opinioni del sito della Giava minore, collocando la alcuni sotto il Tropico di Capricorno secondo quello, che Marco Polo Patrizio Veneto scrive nel lib. 3 cap 13. altri credendola la Sumatra per le distanza, che n'assegna il medisimo Polo, altri volendola per l'Isola Çumbava, e qualch'altra de piu Moderni per la Nuova Hollanda. Noi tra le tante varietà le pareri non terminando cos' alcuna, lasciano la contesa indecisa".</ref>
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