- Bib ID:
- 3418860
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale [ca. 1: 95,000,000] (W 180°00ʹ--E 180°00ʹ/N 90°00ʹ--S °90ʹ00).
- Description:
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- A Paris : Chez Pierre Mariette, Rue St. Jacques à L'Esperance, 1678
- 1 map : col. ; 2 hemispheres each 17.7 cm. in diam., on sheet 42.5 x 57 cm.
- Notes:
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- Double hemispherical map of the world. Unlike the earlier Dutch maps, Sanson's map focuses on the geographic and hydrographic information, the space around the double hemispheres left intentionally blank. The outline of the continents and the illustrations of interior information is very accurate for the day. The map includes features typical of 17th century cartography such as the outline of a great southern continent, as well as several reflections of early knowledge of Australia, based on limited data from early explorations in the southern seas. Sanson also shows a large, mythical land of Jesso, El Dorado's Lake Parima in South America, and, typically, California depicted as an island. Relief is shown pictorially.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231197737
- Cited In:
- Shirley, 419.
- Subject:
-
- Time Coverage:
- 1678
- Other authors/contributors:
- Mariette, Pierre, 1634-1716
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1716
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1678
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