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Curious map of the world, with the Eastern Hemisphere above the Western Hemisphere, published by Goeree in Amsterdam.
Not in Shirley.
The map is almost certainly based on a map by Thomas Burnet in his Telluris Theoria Sacra of 1681. Burnet was the first Englishman to attempt a scientific account of the origin of the earth. His popular and controversial treatise focused on the breaking up of "the fountains of the great deep" as the cause of the flood, as described in Genesis 7:11, and it presented a model of the earth's structure with ample stores of water within subterranean chambers.
The Goeree version shows the earth after the Flood; the continents in outline with accentuated chains of mountains and no place names. Numerous islands are shown throughout the oceans denoting hypothetical lands that existed before the Flood. California is depicted as an island and Australia and New Zealand are partially formed.
![[ World ] Mappe-Monde Planispherique, Physique, Hydrographique et Climatologique Composee et Dressee pour la Revue Geographique Internationale . . . 1877](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/74286.jpg)
![[ WWI Anti-German Propaganda ] Le Plan Pangermaniste](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/63622.jpg)
