The aim of this publication is to show the status of an almost impossible to finish research. The main purpose is to obtain and to publish all the maps that represent Tierra del Fuego in the so called Age of Discovery (XV-XVII centuries) and after All the visitors are encouraged to comment and to contribute.

Selection of the Carta Terza Generale d’America, part of the first world atlas (Dell’Arcano del Mare). The intellectual autor of such enterprise was sir Robert Dudley, the famous favourite of the queen Elizabeth I. The engravings of this atlas were finished in Florence by Antonio Francesco Lucini in 1646.

Delinatio Freti Magellanici (Outline of the Magellan’s strait), page of the 6th part of  the then celebrated Schiffahrten, compilation of the most renowned travels to “new” lands in the Age of Discovery by Levinus Hulsius.

The diversification of the research topics in social sciences by part of a single researcher or group of research would be expanded through Zotero, because you can easily manage a great number of folders filled with documents and metadata about its content without risk of cross erroneously information: just one of the main features of Zotero is crossing information efficiently.

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Zotero is produced by the Center for History and New Media of George Mason University (GMU). It is open and extensible, allowing other users to contribute citation styles and site translators, and more generally for others who are building digital tools for researchers to expand the platform. The name is derived from an Albanian verb meaning “to master”.

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Mainly through Jstor (www.jstor.org/): (short for Journal Storage) is a United States-based online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals.

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