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By R. Buschmann
During this paintings, Buschmann contains overlooked Spanish visions into the ecu perceptions of the rising Pacific global. The booklet argues that Spanish diplomats and intellectuals tried to create an highbrow hyperlink among the Americas and the Pacific Ocean.
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In particular, Fray Juan de Silva addressed several memorials to the already ailing Philip III as well as the Council of Indies. Realizing that the financing of this endeavor was one of the main points of resistance, de Silva argued that the missionary program should be allowed to depart on its own, without much support of armed men. Silva was convinced that missionaries acting alone could be successful in converting the people of the Austral lands in order to fulfill the legitimization of expansion postulated by Alexander VI’s Papal Bull.
Before the arrival of Captain Cook, Spanish officials ceased to consider the lands, whether in continental or island form, as a convenient stopover location. 34 Iberian Visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507–1899 Continuous doubts about the lands permeated Francisco de Seixas y Lovera’s (sometimes spelled Seijas y Lobera) works, released at the end of the seventeenth century. Seixas y Lovera was a mariner who had traveled extensively between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. In addition, he performed the difficult Manila Galleon route to and from the Philippines.
Silva was convinced that missionaries acting alone could be successful in converting the people of the Austral lands in order to fulfill the legitimization of expansion postulated by Alexander VI’s Papal Bull. Silva’s project envisioned the Austral realms as a vast field for the Franciscan mission, but Spanish officials felt otherwise and ignored the proposal. Enlisting the help of Dr. Juan Luis de Arias, who had served as Chronista Major of the Indies and had accompanied Quirós on his venture, Silva hoped to open new channels of negotiation.