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Among its claims to notability is the fact that it was the first dated map published in an atlas, and therefore the first widely available map, to show any part of Australia, the only previous map to do so being Hessel Gerritsz' 1627 Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht ("Map of the Land of Eendracht"), which was not widely distributed or recognised.
This land was posited by Roman geographer Ptolemy as a counterbalance to the extensive land areas in the known world. [p] As explorers charted the Southern Hemisphere, it pushed back the potential bounds of Terra Australis. [91] Discoveries, like Tierra del Fuego and New Holland, [92] were initially mapped as the northern edge of the unknown ...
Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...
Maps exhibiting the world's oceanic waters. A continuous body of water encircling Earth, the World/Global Ocean is divided into a number of principal areas. Five oceanic divisions are usually recognized: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern/Antarctic; the last two listed are sometimes consolidated into the first three.
Mercator's 1569 map was a large planisphere, [3] i.e. a projection of the spherical Earth onto the plane. It was printed in eighteen separate sheets from copper plates engraved by Mercator himself. [4]
While the Qin maps place the cardinal direction of north at the top of the map, the Han maps are orientated with the southern direction at the top. [ 38 ] : 93 The Han maps are also more complex, since they cover a much larger area, employ a large number of well-designed map symbols, and include additional information on local military sites ...
The rounding of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn in the 15th and 16th centuries proved that Terra Australis Incognita ("Unknown Southern Land"), if it existed, was a continent in its own right. In 1773, James Cook and his crew crossed the Antarctic Circle for the first time. Although he discovered new islands, he did not sight the continent ...
Dalrymple's chart of the South Pacific showing discoveries made before 1764 [13] The arguments he presents include reported sightings of the continent, areas known from previou exploration to be open water, and observations of wind, on the assumption that in open ocean winds will be constant, while variable winds indicate the preesence of a ...