- Bib ID:
- 3424510
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Bowles, John, 1701-1779
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. MAP RM 3874 (Roll) copy
- Scale:
- Scale [ca. 1:24,000,000].
- Description:
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- London : Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, 1740
- 1 map : col., ill., mounted on linen ; 97.9 x 118.8 cm.
- Notes:
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- Double hemispherical world map surrounded by spheres, illustrations and text showing Australia as New Holland joined to New Land of Diemens and Land of Papous or New Guinea. Antarctica is shown as "Parts unknown".
- "Also a concise theory of the Earth describing the diurnal and annual motions, its magnitude & the proportions of its parts. Likewise an explanation of the Copernican system shewing magnitude, periods & densities of the planets with their distances from the Sun and the quality of the light & heat they severally receive together with astronomical remarks explaining the causes of summer and winter the changes and increase of day and night".
- The upper and lower panels of the map contain circles of text in decorative cartouches covering the horizon, meridians, the equator, the ecliptic, the tropics, the polar circles, the zones, climates, longitude, latitude, the inhabitants and a description of ye Earth.
- In lower margin: Honi soit qui mal y pense. Dieu et mon droit.
- Prime meridian: Ferro Island.
- MAP RM 3874 (Roll) copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232389444
- Subject:
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- Time Coverage:
- 1740
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1779
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1740
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