Title: South America, 1779 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2009
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
- Harvard University. Library. Open Collections Program
- Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782.
- Santini, P.
- Remondini, Giuseppe Antonio, 1747-1811.
Dates
- Issued: 2009-05
- Coverage: 1779
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte du Perou et Bresil sepl. de Tierre - Firme, de Guayana, et de la riviere des Amazones : ce qui fait la partie boreale de L'Amerique Meridiole., par le sr. d'Anville. It was published by P. Santini, Chez M. Remondini in 1779. Scale [ca. 1:6,500,000]. Covers the northern part of South America. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to a non-standard 'World Sinusoidal' projection with the central meridian at 58.000000 degrees west. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief is shown pictorially. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.
Subjects
- South America
- Aruba
- Barbados
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Grenada
- Guyana
- Netherlands Antilles
- Panama
- Peru
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Venezuela
- Amazon River
- Maps
- Human settlements
- Cities and towns
- Landforms
- Bodies of water
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-87.2913, -32.230341, 17.467846, -16.287969)
- Geometry: BBOX (-87.2913, -32.230341, 17.467846, -16.287969)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard University. Library. Open Collections Program, Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782., Santini, P., Remondini, Giuseppe Antonio, 1747-1811. South America, 1779 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g5311-s12-1779-a5
Format
GeoTIFF