[Chart showing trade winds and monsoons in the tropics] / Edmund Halley
- Bib ID:
- 10010270
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742, cartographer
- Scale:
- Scale approximately 1:57,000,000 (W 97°03'00"--E 149°36'00"/N 32°51'00"--S 32°56'00").
- Description:
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- [London] : [W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for Lockyer Davis, printer to the Royal Society], 1686
- 1 map ; 15 x 48 cm
- Biography/History:
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English astronomer Edmond Halley (ca. 1656-1742) applied his scientific talents in many other fields, including meteorology, geophysics, and mathematics. As an undergraduate at Oxford, he published papers on the solar system and sunspots. In 1679, his publication Catalogues stellarum australium, providing details on almost 350 southern hemisphere stars, earned him election to the Royal Society. Subsequently, he studied trade winds and monsoons, established the relationship between barometric pressure and elevation, designed and demonstrated the use of a diving bell in the Thames River, and published an article (1693) on life annuities that helped foster the development of actuarial science. In Astronomic cosmetic synopsis (1705), he postulated that the comet sightings of 1456, 1531, 1607, and 1682 related to the same comet, and extrapolated its return in 1758. But Halley did not live to witness the truth of his prediction. In map circles, Halley is usually considered to be the first thematic cartographer.
- Notes:
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- Meteorological map, charting the directions of trade winds and monsoons. It covers the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, with parts of the far eastern and western Pacific, between thirty degrees latitude north and south. This is the area where the trade winds blow. Curved, dotted lines indicate the direction of the winds in particular areas, showing for the first time on a map the systematic operation of weather patterns.
- The chart appears to be a draft first state, with printer’s instructions top left and top right, the final version of which was published at the end of Halley’s corresponding article, “An Historical Account of the Trade Winds, and Monsoons, Observable in the Seas between and near the Tropicks, with an Attempt to Assign the Physical Cause of the Said Winds,” Philosophical Transactions, volume 16, issue 183 (September 1686), pages 153-168.
- In upper right corner: Appendix pag: 36
- In upper left corner: N.183
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1686
- Also Titled:
- Edmund Halley's meteorological and astronomical winds chart
- Copyright:
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1742
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- Publication date:
- 1686
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