THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CARTOGRAPHY OF NEWFOUNDLAND
The author, who has been lieutenant-governor of the island, examines chronologically the manner in which Newfoundland was shown on maps of the 17th Century. He uses thirty-five illustrations and further references, commencing with the archipelagic form common in the cartography of the preceding cent...
| Published in: | Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
1971
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/524r-1170-p147-4206 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/524R-1170-P147-4206 |
| Summary: | The author, who has been lieutenant-governor of the island, examines chronologically the manner in which Newfoundland was shown on maps of the 17th Century. He uses thirty-five illustrations and further references, commencing with the archipelagic form common in the cartography of the preceding century and terminating with vague forms from maps by Jaillot and Visscher. For the most part the examples are depictions of the island planispheres, or of continental or oceanic maps. Here and there an informed view appears, only to be forgotten or ignored by later cartographers. |
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