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Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula /

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The sciences, decoration for the Library of Congress

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Epistolarum astronomicarum libri., Latin book

Typus Cosmographicus Universalis. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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World map with ornate border design natives hunting and cannibailzing; elephant; serpent; sea monster.

Illus. in: "Mappondo de Johann Huttich" from the 1532 Basel edition of Novus Orbis Regionum.

No reference copy.

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Caption card tracings: Cannibals; Hunting; Elephants; Sea monsters; Incunabula; Publ. Ind.; Maps.

The geography discoveries and the new printing techniques resulted in maps that can be cheaply produced. Since a globe remains the only accurate way of representing the spherical earth, and any flat representation resulted in distorted projection. In 1569, Mercator published a map of the world specifically intended as an aid to navigation. It used a projection now known by Mercator's name, though it has been used by few others before him, based on a system of latitude and longitude that dated back to Hipparchus. Mercator's projection greatly enlarged territories as they recede from the equator. The distortion of Mercator's projection is a benefit to navigators since Mercator achieves a matching scale for longitude and latitude in every section of the map. A compass course can be plotted at the same angle on any part of Mercator's map. As a result marine charts still use this projection. By the time of his death in 1595, Mercator has either published or prepared large engraved maps, designed for binding into volume form, of France, Germany, Italy, the Balkans, and the British Isles. Mercator's son issues the entire series under the title "Atlas": "Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes." The name becomes the word for a volume of maps.

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01/01/1532
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Maps XVI Century

16th Century Maps from various collections
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A collection of maps, charts, drawings, surveys, etc, published from time to time, by order of the two houses of Congress : [United States, Western Hemisphere, and the world].

The West Point atlas of the Civil War

Chinese apparatus for hulling and coarse grinding rice / J.B. Meffert del. ; Ackerman Lith. 379 Broadway, N.Y.

The Daily Telegraph map of the world on Mercator's projection /

Springfield Armory National Historic Site, Massachusetts

A black and white photo of a bedroom. Office of War Information Photograph

Scribner's statistical atlas of the United States, showing by graphic methods their present condition and their political, social and industrial development

[Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio, Italy. Loggia of the Muses, upper court]

Edward S. Curtis - Quilcene boy, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. during American Civil War

Azimuthal equidistant projection centered on Paris, 48⁰52ʹN., 2⁰20ʹE. 3-70.

[Alphonse Penaud design for twin-propeller monoplane with large wing]

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