| Summary: | 18th century Copper engraving handcolored with watercolor mounted on linen. Full color on two main hemispheres. Outline color on ancillary maps. Relief shown pictorially. Printed in cartouche in upper left corner: "Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa Universalis, Utrumqe Hemisphaerium Orient et Occidentale repraesentans Ex IV. mappis generalibus Hasianis composite et adjectis ceteris hemisphaeriis designate a G. M. Lowizio Excudentibus Homanianis Heredibus. A. MDCCXXXXVI. Fig. I. dicitur Hemisphaerium polare arcticum. Fig. II. Hemisphaerium polare antarcticum. Fig. III. Hemisphaerium Sphaerae obliquae pro horizonte Norimberg. Fig. IV. ejus oppositum inferius cum Antipodibus Norimbergensibus." Printed in cartouche in upper right corner: "Mappe _ Monde, qui represente les deux Hemispheres savoir celui de l'Orient et celui de l'Occident tirée des quatre Cartes generals de feu M. le Professeur Hasius. dressée par Mr. G. M. Lowitz, et publiée par les Heritiers de Homann. l'An 1746. Fig. I. Heisphere polaire Arctique. Fig. II. Hemisphere polaire Antarctique. Fig. III. Hemisphere de la Sphere oblique pour l'Horizon de Nuremberg. Fig IV. Les Antipodes de Nuremberg." Old call number written in ink in lower left corner outside border. Shows the western hemisphere and eastern hemisphere in double hemispheric projection. Includes North America, South America, partial outline of Australia, Asia, Africa and Europe. Of note, far northwest portion of Canada is left blank. Greenland is shown as connected to North America. Includes islands in South Pacific Ocean and West Indies. Includes four figures that are ancillary maps of different projections of the world. Figures I and II show the view of the world from the North and South Poles, respectively. Figure III in the lower right corner shows the view of the world angled towards Nuremburg. Figure IV in the lower left corner shows the opposite global area from figure III or the antipodes of Nuremburg. Between figures IV, II and II are two spherical diagrams of the world showing the parts of the globe illuminated by the sun and in darkness at different times. Surrounding the cartouches are sea creatures emerging from the water, a merman blowing a conch shell, broken tusks, a parrot and a deer amongst floral decoration. Scale: c.a. 1:50,000,000-90,000,000. Johann Matthias Hase (Hass) was a professor of mathematics at Wittenberg. He created maps for Homann Heirs. His works include: "Africa" (1737), "Guinea" (1743), "Grund Staedten" (1745), and "Atlas Historicus" (1750) (Tooley, 273). Source(s): Tooley, Ronald Vere. "Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers." Hertfordshire: Map Collector Publications Limited, 1979.
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