Magellans route around the world in a copy of the Agnese Atlas Magellans route is shown as a dark line Ferdinand Magellan c set sail from Seville Spain in August with five ships He sailed south and west around the tip of South America and then sailed for days across the Pacific Magellan died in the Philippines and only a single ship completed the circumnavigation returning to Spain in September The lighter line shows a route across the Atlantic from Spain to Central America and then to Peru Twelve wind cherubs are also shown This atlas was produced in Venice by Italian mapmaker Battista Agnese The US Library of Congress acquired this edition in
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