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17th century. Atlas Novus (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658; 1645 edition at UCLA) Dell'Arcano del Mare (England/Italy, 1645–1661) Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (France, 1658–1676) Klencke Atlas (1660; world's largest book) Atlas Maior (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1662–1667) Atlante Veneto (Coronelli, Venice, 1691) 18th century
Religion and geography is the study of the impact of geography, i.e. place and space, on religious belief. [1]Another aspect of the relationship between religion and geography is religious geography, in which geographical ideas are influenced by religion, such as early map-making, and the biblical geography that developed in the 16th century to identify places from the Bible.
By the middle of the 19th century, Ussher's chronology came under increasing attack from supporters of uniformitarianism, who argued that Ussher's "young Earth" was incompatible with the increasingly accepted view of an Earth much more ancient than Ussher's. It became generally accepted that the Earth was tens, perhaps even hundreds of millions ...
Thomas Jefferys (c. 1719 – 1771), "Geographer to King George III", was an English cartographer who was the leading map supplier of his day. [1] He engraved and printed maps for government and other official bodies and produced a wide range of commercial maps and atlases, especially of North America. [2]
In the French edition of the Atlas Minor we find one of the first instances of a thematic map using map symbols. This is a map entitled Designatio orbis christiani (1607) showing the dispersion of major religions. [8] Hondius used copper plates to print John Speed's atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, which was published in 1611/ ...
17th-century religious buildings and structures (27 C) 17th-century religious leaders (6 C, 6 P) Religious organizations disestablished in the 17th century (2 C, 2 P)
17th-century missionary activity in Asia and the Americas grew strongly, put down roots, and developed its institutions, though it met with strong resistance in Japan in particular. At the same time Christian colonization of some areas outside Europe succeeded, driven by economic as well as religious reasons.