Jorge, Luiz de Barbuda
Luiz Jorge de Barbuda (1564? - 1613? ) was a Portuguese cartographer. He is known primarily as the individual credited by Abraham Ortelius as the source for During his 1584 map of China, the first map specifically of China to appear in an atlas. Little is known of his early history and there is little agreement by scholars on his dates. It is understood that he was, in 1582, commissioned by Philip II of Spain to produce navigation charts and world maps. His role as an official cartographer for Spain makes the appearance of his map in Ortelius' atlas all the more remarkable: The Spanish were reluctant to share any of their cartographic information and printed virtually none of it in the 16th and 17th centuries. Nevertheless, his Chinaeappeared in Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum accompanied by a brief description of China and its language, derived from Bernardino de Escalante's 1577 Discurso de la navegacion que los Portugueses hacen a los Reinos y Provincias de Oriente, Spain's first book about China. Both the map and the description published in Ortelius' work would remain the most authoritative European description of China until Martini's 1655 work became available.
First European Atlas map specifically of China.
Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. auctore Ludovico Georgio.
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This is Abraham Ortelius' 1584 map of China, the first specific map of China, Southeast Asia, and the Philippines to appear in an atlas, here in an original-color example of a 1608 Vrients edition. This is the first printed European map of China and first atlas map to name the Philippines as an archipelago. This map remained definative regional map until superceded in 1655 maps of Martino Martini (卫匡国; 1614 - 1661). (more details)