A view of the world in divers projections

Description:

World map on an oval projection. Relief shown pictorially. Includes ancillary maps of the two polar hemispheres and and a twin-hemispherical world map. Includes 10 astronomical diagrams: Ptolemy's system -- Copernic system -- Tycho's system -- The face of the sun / by Fa. Kircher -- Saturn / by Mr. Hook -- Mars / by Cassini -- Jupiter / by Mr. Hook -- The face of the moon -- The sun enlightening the earth -- The sun enlightening the moon, the moon enlightening the earth. Above neat line of map: This projection by equidistant meridians & parallels shews the naturall bearing, distance & proportion of countryes more exactly then that wherein ye distance of the meridians & parallels differ as they do in the stereographick projections, as may be seen above by the two smaller hemispheres.

Creator:

Harris, John

Publisher:

London : Printed and sold by Iohn Garret at his shop next the stayres of ye Royall Exchange in Cornhill ... , [ca. 1697]

Provider:

Princeton

Subject:

World maps—Early works to 1800 and World maps—1697

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

TIFF

More details at:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/7564813