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Carta prima generale d'Affrica e parte d'America
Single sheet, engraving. Scale: [circa 1:9,000,000 (lat)]. Mercator projection with the prime meridian through Pico, Azores. The chart shows compass variation and currents. The eastwards continuation of the main chart is shown as an inset labelled Mare di Ethiopia. The chart is decorated with a ship and compass rose.
This is a sheet from Dudley's atlas Dell'arcano del mare.
This is a sheet from Dudley's atlas Dell'arcano del mare.
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Object Details
| ID: | G213:6/4 |
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| Collection: | Charts and maps |
| Type: | Chart |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Dudley, Robert; Lucini, Antonio Francesco |
| Places: | Central Atlantic |
| Date made: | 1646 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Printed area 46.5 x 72cm, on sheet 53 x 76.5cm. |