Jean Rotz

[1] His work was greatly influenced by these early French explorations, which induced him to create highly decorative maps.

Around the same year, King Henry VIII was ordering a fleet of ships to conquer enemy territories that gained the attention of the French army.

The French was more concerned about Rotz as stated in a letter to the Admiral:"A Dieppois named Jean Roze, now in the service of the King of England, who gives him 160 crowns a year, "a very good-natured man, and very well versed in matters by the navy and navigation," asked Selve to write to the king, to be able to return to France with his wife and children, offering to pay "the money and finances which have accustomed to be paid for such provisions."

Charles Ernest Coquebert de Montbret, having been able to examine the Rotz atlas at the British Museum during a visit to London following the Peace of Amiens in 1802, claimed in a lecture to the Société Philomathique de Paris in 1803 that its Londe of Java was evidence of a discovery of the east coast of Australia by Portuguese based in the Moluccas, who perhaps were accompanied by French seafarers who thereby found the opportunity to obtain the intelligence upon which the map, and others of the Dieppe school, was prepared.

The Italian traveler Ludovico di Varthema visited Java in 1506 and said it “prope in inmensum patet (extends almost beyond measure)”.