Luiz Jorge de Barbuda

It is believed that he was the person known under the Latinized name Ludovicus Georgius, the creator of the influential map of China, published by Abraham Ortelius in 1584 in his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.

Later Spanish writers would "disambiguate" his name using the place of his origin, calling him Luis Jorge de la Barbuda.

According to Maroto and Piñeiro, Luis Jorge was hired by Philip II of Spain in 1582 as the "master of making navigation charts and world maps" (maestro de hacer cartas de marear y cosmographias).

[3] Ludovicus Georgius' famous work, the 1584 map of China, appeared in Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.

Both Ludovicus Georgius' map and Escalante-based "country summary" became highly influential, becoming the base for most European cartographic and literary work on the topic for several decades,[4] until much more precise information from China-based Jesuit became available (Martino Martini, Novus Atlas Sinensis, 1655).