The Outset Map Of Australia

This week's Mappa Mundi is the Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula past times Hendrik Hondius. The map is a double hemisphere map of the world. It was created inwards 1630 in addition to published i twelvemonth later.

Among the map's original claims to fame is that it is i of the real get-go widely available globe maps to exhibit whatever business office of Australia. The Australian coastline shown on the map is business office of the westward coast of Cape York Peninsula, discovered past times January Carstensz inwards 1623. The map every bit good shows the Great Wall of China.

You tin sack persuasion the map on Wikipedia. I've every bit good added the map to my Mappae Mundi collection. To persuasion the map on Mappae Mundi simply click on the '1642' button. The map that I've added to Mappae Mundi is genuinely a re-create of the original past times Pierre-Jean Mariette (hence the later on date). For about argue Mariette left off the westward coast of Commonwealth of Australia on his re-create of Hondius' original.

The Hondius original every bit good has 4 portraits, positioned inwards each corner of the map. The portraits are of Julius Caesar, Claudius Ptolemy, in addition to the atlas's get-go 2 publishers, Gerard Mercator in addition to Jodocus Hondius (the cartographer's father). The Mariette re-create replaces the portraits amongst a range 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 persuasion the get-go map to lift America. Then click on the '1507' push on Mappae Mundi to persuasion Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 globe map.