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 inwards 1630 in addition to published ane yr later.
Among the map's primary claims to fame is that it is ane of the really kickoff widely available globe maps to demo whatsoever business office of Australia. The Australian coastline shown on the map is business office of the westward coast of Cape York Peninsula, discovered yesteryear January Carstensz inwards 1623. The map equally good shows the Great Wall of China.
You tin stance the map on Wikipedia. I've equally good added the map to my Mappae Mundi collection. To stance the map on Mappae Mundi only click on the '1642' button. The map that I've added to Mappae Mundi is genuinely a re-create of the master copy yesteryear Pierre-Jean Mariette (hence the afterwards date). For around argue Mariette left off the westward coast of Commonwealth of Australia on his re-create of Hondius' original.
The Hondius master copy equally good has iv portraits, positioned inwards each corner of the map. The portraits are of Julius Caesar, Claudius Ptolemy, in addition to the atlas's kickoff ii publishers, Gerard Mercator in addition to Jodocus Hondius (the cartographer's father). The Mariette re-create replaces the portraits alongside a orbit rose, a current of air rose, a perpetual calendar in addition to a celestial map of the planets in addition to their movements.
If y'all desire to stance the kickoff map to advert America. Then click on the '1507' push on Mappae Mundi to stance Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 globe map.
