Map of The World Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Societys of London and Paris, A
18th century Copper engraving handcolored with watercolor. Mounted on linen. Full color. Relief shown pictorially. Double hemispheric projection. Printed at top in center: "A Map of The World Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Societys of London and Paris. By Iohn Senex,...
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Senex, John d. 1740
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World maps - Early works to 1800 Senex, John, d. 1740 Map of The World Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Societys of London and Paris, A |
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18th century Copper engraving handcolored with watercolor. Mounted on linen. Full color. Relief shown pictorially. Double hemispheric projection. Printed at top in center: "A Map of The World Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Societys of London and Paris. By Iohn Senex, F. R. S. Printed beneath title and to the right: "Sold by I. Senex at the Globe against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet Street London 1725." Printed in cartouche beneath title: "To the Right Honourable Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington and Cork Viscount Dungarvan , Baron Clifford of LAnborough and Baron Boyle of Younghail. This Map is Dedicated by his most Obedient & most humble Servts. Iohn Senex. [Text from previous engraving is visible but not legible.] H. Hulsbergh." Printed around margins and in bottom are texts from The Theory of the Tides from Sir Isaac Newton's "Principia," Edmund Halley's text on the "Quantity of Vapour Exhaled from the Sea, of its Circulation and of the Cause of Springs," and Edmund Halley's text on "An attempt to assigne the Physical cause of the Trade Winds and Monsoons." World map which depicts an outline of Australia as "New Holland," linked to New Guinea. Northwest North America is left blank and California is shown as an island. Notes on lines of magnetic variation as well as notes on exploration are throughout the map. Also noteworthy is the inclusion of the mythical land of Yesso or "Yedso" and the land of Compagnia, northwest of Japan. Arrows for trade winds are shown throughout region between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. Surrounding the cartouche are four reclining figures, possibly representing the four major continents known at the time, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Prime Meridian: Isle of Ferro. Scale: 1:40,000,000. John Senex was a surveyor, engraver, publisher and Geographer to Queen Anne. His works include "System of Geography" (with Jeremiah Seller and C. Price), "General Atlas" folio 1708-12, Lawson's "Carolina" (1709), "England Atlas" (1714), Ogilby's "Roads" (1719), "New General Atlas" (1721), Mayo's "Barbados" (1722), Norden's "Hertfordshire" (1723), Budgen's "Sussex" (1724), "First Settlements America" (1735), and "Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Hants., and Berkshire" (1746) (Tooley, 574-6). The land of "Iesso" or "Yezo" was an island allegedly lying north of Japan. Later identified as Hokkaido, explorers in the seventeenth century were unsure of its nature. The Russians attempted to discern whether Yezo was indeed an island or part of Asia with a number of expeditions in the seventeenth century. Under the reign of Peter the Great, the explorers were able to chart Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kurile Islands. In the 1780s, a French expedition sailed between Yezo and Korea, and then, through the Kuriles (Tooley and Bricker, 130). Source(s): Tooley, Ronald Vere, ed. "The Mapping of America." London: Holland Press, 1985. Tooley, Ronald Vere and Charles Bricker. "Landmarks of Mapmaking: An Illustrated Survey of Maps and Mapmakers." Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1968. |
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Senex, John, d. 1740 |
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Senex, John, d. 1740 |
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Map of The World Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Societys of London and Paris, A |
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Map of The World Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Societys of London and Paris, A |
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Map of The World Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Societys of London and Paris, A |
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Map of The World Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Societys of London and Paris, A |
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Map of The World Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Societys of London and Paris, A |
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map of the world corrected from the observations communicated to the royal societys of london and paris, a |
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Senex, John d. 1740 |
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1725 |
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World; Western Hemisphere; Eastern Hemisphere; North America; South America; Arctic; Antarctica; Pacific Ocean; South Pacific; Australia; Africa; Asia; Europe |
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ENVELOPE(160.000,160.000,56.000,56.000) ENVELOPE(-63.167,-63.167,-70.467,-70.467) ENVELOPE(16.233,16.233,66.717,66.717) ENVELOPE(-56.015,-56.015,49.750,49.750) |
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Arctic Pacific Kamchatka Peninsula Clifford Ferro Burlington |
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Arctic Pacific Kamchatka Peninsula Clifford Ferro Burlington |
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Antarc* Antarctica Arctic Kamchatka Kamchatka Peninsula |
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Antarc* Antarctica Arctic Kamchatka Kamchatka Peninsula |
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Rare Map Collection. G3200 1725 S4 |
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World and Regional Maps, 16th to the 19th centuries MAP050 University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, [Digital ID Number or Negative Number] http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/144 |
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use |
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:maps/144 2023-05-15T14:03:54+02:00 Map of The World Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Societys of London and Paris, A Senex, John, d. 1740 University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.; World; Western Hemisphere; Eastern Hemisphere; North America; South America; Arctic; Antarctica; Pacific Ocean; South Pacific; Australia; Africa; Asia; Europe 1725 2 hemispheres each 55 cm in diameter, on sheet 60 x 160 cm. Scanned from original map at 400 dpi in TIFF format, resized and enhanced at 300 ppi using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using ContentDM's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2008. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/144 English eng Senex, John d. 1740 World and Regional Maps, 16th to the 19th centuries MAP050 University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, [Digital ID Number or Negative Number] http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/144 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Rare Map Collection. G3200 1725 S4 World maps - Early works to 1800 Map; Engraving; image 1725 ftuwashingtonlib 2019-03-23T23:57:02Z 18th century Copper engraving handcolored with watercolor. Mounted on linen. Full color. Relief shown pictorially. Double hemispheric projection. Printed at top in center: "A Map of The World Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Societys of London and Paris. By Iohn Senex, F. R. S. Printed beneath title and to the right: "Sold by I. Senex at the Globe against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet Street London 1725." Printed in cartouche beneath title: "To the Right Honourable Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington and Cork Viscount Dungarvan , Baron Clifford of LAnborough and Baron Boyle of Younghail. This Map is Dedicated by his most Obedient & most humble Servts. Iohn Senex. [Text from previous engraving is visible but not legible.] H. Hulsbergh." Printed around margins and in bottom are texts from The Theory of the Tides from Sir Isaac Newton's "Principia," Edmund Halley's text on the "Quantity of Vapour Exhaled from the Sea, of its Circulation and of the Cause of Springs," and Edmund Halley's text on "An attempt to assigne the Physical cause of the Trade Winds and Monsoons." World map which depicts an outline of Australia as "New Holland," linked to New Guinea. Northwest North America is left blank and California is shown as an island. Notes on lines of magnetic variation as well as notes on exploration are throughout the map. Also noteworthy is the inclusion of the mythical land of Yesso or "Yedso" and the land of Compagnia, northwest of Japan. Arrows for trade winds are shown throughout region between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. Surrounding the cartouche are four reclining figures, possibly representing the four major continents known at the time, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Prime Meridian: Isle of Ferro. Scale: 1:40,000,000. John Senex was a surveyor, engraver, publisher and Geographer to Queen Anne. His works include "System of Geography" (with Jeremiah Seller and C. Price), "General Atlas" folio 1708-12, Lawson's "Carolina" (1709), "England Atlas" (1714), Ogilby's "Roads" (1719), "New General Atlas" (1721), Mayo's "Barbados" (1722), Norden's "Hertfordshire" (1723), Budgen's "Sussex" (1724), "First Settlements America" (1735), and "Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Hants., and Berkshire" (1746) (Tooley, 574-6). The land of "Iesso" or "Yezo" was an island allegedly lying north of Japan. Later identified as Hokkaido, explorers in the seventeenth century were unsure of its nature. The Russians attempted to discern whether Yezo was indeed an island or part of Asia with a number of expeditions in the seventeenth century. Under the reign of Peter the Great, the explorers were able to chart Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kurile Islands. In the 1780s, a French expedition sailed between Yezo and Korea, and then, through the Kuriles (Tooley and Bricker, 130). Source(s): Tooley, Ronald Vere, ed. "The Mapping of America." London: Holland Press, 1985. Tooley, Ronald Vere and Charles Bricker. "Landmarks of Mapmaking: An Illustrated Survey of Maps and Mapmakers." Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1968. Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctica Arctic Kamchatka Kamchatka Peninsula University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Arctic Pacific Kamchatka Peninsula ENVELOPE(160.000,160.000,56.000,56.000) Clifford ENVELOPE(-63.167,-63.167,-70.467,-70.467) Ferro ENVELOPE(16.233,16.233,66.717,66.717) Burlington ENVELOPE(-56.015,-56.015,49.750,49.750) |