A new mapp of the world [cartographic material] / Sutton Nicholls sculp
- Bib ID:
- 4593061
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Nichols, Sutton
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale [ca. 1:50,000,000].
- Description:
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- London : Printed, colour'd & sold by Hen. Overton at ye White Horse without Newgate, [1715]
- 1 map : hand col. ; 2 hemispheres each 40.5 in diam., on sheet 62.5 x 99.5 cm.
- Full contents:
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- Insets: The northern hemisphere upon the plane of the equinoctial
- The sphere with its lines of degrees
- Ptolomy's system
- Copernicus system
- The sun enlightning the earth
- The northern hemisphere upon the plane of the horizon
- Venus by Mr. Cassini
- A right sphere
- Mars by Mr. Cassini
- The face of the Moon
- Saturn by Mr. Cassini
- Oblique sphere
- Jupiter with his 4 satillites by Mr. Cassini
- The southern hemisphere upon the plane of the horizon
- The sun enlightning ye Moon
- Mercury
- Tychos system
- A parallel sphere
- The southern hemisphere upon ye plane of ye equinoctial
- [British Isles].
- Notes:
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- Double hemispherical map of the world showing Australia and New Zealand charted as a result of Tasman's 1642-43 and 1644 voyages. The east coast of Australia is uncharted. A description signed by "Mr. Witsen Phil. Transact No. 245" warns of the inhospitableness of the known Australian continent. Notes relating to the work of Dr. Edmund Halley in 1700 on compass variations are on the map. Relief shown pictorially.
- "Printed and sold by Henry Overton at the White House without Newgate, London."
- Includes ill. (some col.)
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232455913
- Cited In:
- Shirley, R. Mapping of the world, 624.
- Subject:
- World maps -- Early works to 1800
- Time Coverage:
- 1715
- Other authors/contributors:
- Overton, Henry, 1675 or 6-1751
- Also Titled:
- This new and correct map of the world is laid down according to the newest observations including the trade winds, monsoons, variation of the compass, the various systems of Ptolomy [i.e. Ptolemy], Copernicus and Tycho Brahe, together with ye appearances of ye planets &c
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