Tuesday, 6 March 2012

WORLD MAP 18TH CENTURY




[1]  Description: World map created by the German or Dutch cartographer Herman(n) Moll in 1709.

[2]  Description: World map (1745) from an unknown author.


[3]  Description: World map from the French cartographer Nicolas de Fer, published in 1722.


[4]  Description: The so-called "Zheng He map" is a Chinese world map, probably produced in 1763 at the base of Zheng He's voyages.


 [5]  Description: Engraved world map by the German cartographer Leonhard Euler first published 1753 in his school atlas "Geographischer Atlas".


[6]  Description: World map with the trade winds from the German or Dutch cartographer Herman(n) Moll first published in England 1719. Picture from Atlas Minor, 3rd edition, London 1736.


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