| Summary: | Double hemispherical world map surrounded by spheres, illustrations and text showing Australia as New Holland joined to New Land of Diemens and Land of Papous or New Guinea. Antarctica is shown as "Parts unknown".; "Also a concise theory of the Earth describing the diurnal and annual motions, its magnitude & the proportions of its parts. Likewise an explanation of the Copernican system shewing magnitude, periods & densities of the planets with their distances from the Sun and the quality of the light & heat they severally receive together with astronomical remarks explaining the causes of summer and winter the changes and increase of day and night".; The upper and lower panels of the map contain circles of text in decorative cartouches covering the horizon, meridians, the equator, the ecliptic, the tropics, the polar circles, the zones, climates, longitude, latitude, the inhabitants and a description of ye Earth.; In lower margin: Honi soit qui mal y pense. Dieu et mon droit.; Prime meridian: Ferro Island.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm3874.
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