Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe : laid down from the best observations and newest discoveries particularly those lately made in the south seas by Anson, Byron, Wallis, Bouganville, Cook, and other celebrated circumnavigators, illustrated with a variety of useful projections and representations of the heavenly bodies the most approved astronomical and geographical definitions tables, and problems with an easy and familiar explanation of the most curious and interesting phoenomena in the universal system.
Summary
Shows various expedition routes.
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes text and col. ill.
Ancillary maps: Solar system -- Northern hemisphere -- Southern hemisphere -- Astronomical latitude and longitude analemma -- Universal scale of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, secants, & c. & c. -- Chart of the world according to Mercator's projection -- Selenography or a map of the moon -- Vicissitude of seasons explained -- Analemma.
Sectioned into 4 pieces, mounted on cloth.
LC copy imperfect: Margin trimmed, minor losses along top.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Tags
Date
01/01/1780
Contributors
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain