%0 Journal Article %T Usos diplom¨¢ticos da ilha-Brasil pol¨ºmicas cartogr¨¢ficas e historiogr¨¢ficas %A Kantor %A ¨ªris %J Varia Historia %D 2007 %I Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais %R 10.1590/S0104-87752007000100005 %X this article analyses the formation of brazil's island myth and how it was represented in the xvi and xvii cartography. it also discusses how this myth was used and reused for diplomatic porpoises. %K historiography %K cartography %K brazil's island myth. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-87752007000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en