MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
12885
Record number:
12885-2
JCB call number:
E751 R375n
Image title:
[Profile and topographical view of the land near Quito]
Place image published:
[Göttingen]
Image publisher:
[Widow of Abram Vandenhoek]
Image date:
[1751]
Image function:
fold-out plate; following p. 152
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
30.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
18.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
37 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
German
Description:
Profile and topographical view of the the Cordiller mountain range near Quito, present-day Ecuador. Includes volcanos, scale, and letters which identify mountain peaks in text. Also shows elevation.
Source Title:
Reisen nach Peru, Acadien und Egypten
Source place of publication:
Göttingen
Source publisher:
Verlegts Abram Vandenhoeks seel. Wittwe
Source date:
1751
notes:
This book is a translation of three books by different authors. The first part contains the first part of Pierre Bouguer, La figure de la terre, Paris, 1749, which contains an account of Bouguer's scientific mission to Peru (actually, present-day Ecuador) which he took with Charles Marie de La Condamine to measure a degree of the meridian near the equator.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1920.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Scientific expeditions--South America

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