This week's Mappa Mundi is the Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula yesteryear Hendrik Hondius. The map is a double hemisphere map of the world. It was created inward 1630 as well as published 1 twelvemonth later.
Among the map's original claims to fame is that it is 1 of the really origin widely available globe maps to exhibit whatsoever role of Australia. The Australian coastline shown on the map is role of the due west coast of Cape York Peninsula, discovered yesteryear January Carstensz inward 1623. The map besides shows the Great Wall of China.
You tin stance the map on Wikipedia. I've besides added the map to my Mappae Mundi collection. To stance the map on Mappae Mundi but click on the '1642' button. The map that I've added to Mappae Mundi is genuinely a re-create of the original yesteryear Pierre-Jean Mariette (hence the afterwards date). For closed to argue Mariette left off the due west coast of Commonwealth of Australia on his re-create of Hondius' original.
The Hondius original besides has 4 portraits, positioned inward each corner of the map. The portraits are of Julius Caesar, Claudius Ptolemy, as well as the atlas's origin ii publishers, Gerard Mercator as well as Jodocus Hondius (the cartographer's father). The Mariette re-create replaces the portraits alongside a orbit rose, a air current rose, a perpetual calendar as well as a celestial map of the planets as well as their movements.
If y'all desire to stance the origin map to advert America. Then click on the '1507' push on Mappae Mundi to stance Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 globe map.
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