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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
8959
File Name:
8959-5
Call number:
Codex Latin 1
Map title:
[Polar projection of Arctic]
Place of Publication:
[Basel]
Publication date:
[ca. 1513]
Map size height:
20.1 cm.
Map size width:
20.1 cm.
Item description:
manuscript, hand coloring
Geographical description:
Map of the Arctic Circle projected from the North Pole, showing part of North and South America as two islands, some Caribbean islands, and a large island to the west of North America. Cartographic elements include lines of latitude and longitude.
Source author:
Glareanus, Henricus, 1488-1563
Source title:
De geometriae principiis ad sphaerae astronomicae noticiam neces sariis. caput primum
Source place:
[Basel]
Geographic Area:
Polar
Historical notes:
The author, Henri Loriti or Heinrich Loritz, was called Glareanus after his birthplace, Glaris, in Switzerland.Glareanus preserved Waldseemüller's geographical concepts shown on Waldseemüller's maps of 1507 with his own corrections in reciprocal relationships between the continents. One of the first known maps of the northern hemisphere on a circumpolar projection.
Normalized date:
1513
Creator:
Henricus Glareanus

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