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Title: A view of the world in divers projections

Dates

• Coverage: 1697

Publishers

• London : Printed and sold by Iohn Garret at his shop next the stayres of ye Royall Exchange in Cornhill ... , [ca. 1697]

Summary

World map on an oval projection. Relief shown pictorially. Includes ancillary maps of the two polar hemispheres and and a twin-hemispherical world map. Includes 10 astronomical diagrams: Ptolemy's system -- Copernic system -- Tycho's system -- The face of the sun / by Fa. Kircher -- Saturn / by Mr. Hook -- Mars / by Cassini -- Jupiter / by Mr. Hook -- The face of the moon -- The sun enlightening the earth -- The sun enlightening the moon, the moon enlightening the earth. Above neat line of map: This projection by equidistant meridians & parallels shews the naturall bearing, distance & proportion of countryes more exactly then that wherein ye distance of the meridians & parallels differ as they do in the stereographick projections, as may be seen above by the two smaller hemispheres.

Subjects

• World maps—Early works to 1800
• World maps—1697
• Other

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-180.0, 180.0, 90.0, -90.0)
• Geometry: BBOX (-180.0, 180.0, 90.0, -90.0)

Provider

Princeton

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

Harris, John. A view of the world in divers projections. London : Printed and sold by Iohn Garret at his shop next the stayres of ye Royall Exchange in Cornhill ... , [ca. 1697]. Image data. https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-vd66w2408

Format

TIFF

Languages

• eng