The "Island of Sand" or #SableIsland merited its own chart and whole plate for sailing directions in the #AtlanticNeptune due to the significant number of shipwrecks that occurred around this small crescent of land over 100 miles southeast of Nova Scotia. #maps#HarvardLibrary
I've shared topographic maps of countries many times before. Never a topographic view of a single city. Here is the topography of London. Source: https://t.co/MD7kjLRzr3
The double hemispheric #Earth, spun around all topsy-turvy by the surrounding winds into a variety of surrounding orthographic projections; appropriately crafted by Matthäus Seutter, the erstwhile brewer's apprentice, around 1720. #maps#HarvardLibrary
Using #maps for historic research can be misleading without properly situating an atlas in the place, time, and purpose of its creators. New blog on the Baist Atlas!
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