CARTE GENERALE DU MONDE, ... /GENERALE WAERELD KAART, ...
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Map maker: Pierre Mortier
Date: c.1700
Short Title: Carte Generale Du Monde, ... / Generale Waereld Kaart, ...
Long Title: Carte Generale du Monde ou Description du Monde Terrestre & Aquatique - General Waereld card, or Beschryving of the Land and Water Waereld
Publisher: Jean Covens et Corneille Mortier
Publisher Location: Amsterdam
Map size-Height: 40.5 cm
Map size-Width: 47.5 cm
An unusually engraved map on Mercator's projection which, through its intricate style emphasizes coastal indents and headlands, shows some land forms strangely elongated and provides some interesting concepts of the world's cartography. California, typically for the period, is shown as an island, while to the northeast a channel links the Pacific with the Hudsons Bay and the Atlantic, New Holland appears almost box-shaped and northeast Asia extends far into the Arctic seas. Many of these features derived from the cartography propounded by the school of French Theoretical geographers whose imagine dominated their mapping. Along the top of the map appear a double hemisphere, a separate lunar / solar diagram and a representation of the globe by night and day, also of the world without water. Rodney Shirley, in his book Mapping of the World, suggests this map appeared in a history of the Bible.
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