Title: Hemisphere Septentrional pour voir plus distinctement Les Terres Arctiques . . . 1714
Map Maker:
Guillaume De L'Isle
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Place / Date: Paris / 1714
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Coloring: Hand Colored
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Size: 18 x 18 inches
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Condition: VG+
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Price:
SOLD
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Inventory ID: 8931
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Description: Handsome map showing the world using the North Pole as the center point of hemisphere and extending to the Equator. Cartographically, this means of projection has the opposite effect of the Mercator projection. The Mercator projection inflates land masses at the northern and southern extremes while showing regions closer to the Equator correctly. This projection shows the Polar regions correctly and distorts Equatorial lands. California is shown as a peninsula. Japan is still in a fairly early stage of cartography, and the northeast coast of Russia has not yet been charted out to its full extent. However, it is the blank spaces that show one of the major steps achieved here; De L’Isle is little given to speculation about what has not been proven by actual exploration. His approach is emblematic of the more scientific approach taken in cartography during the 18th Century. A fine wide margined example of this first state of the map, which would be re-issued and updated for nearly a century.
Related Categories:
Maps of America
Maps of Northwest America
Maps of the World
Maps of the Northern Hemisphere
Maps of the Pacific Ocean
Polar Maps
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