Novissima totius terrarum orbis tabula [Newest Map of the Whole Earth]

Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Double hemisphere, largely from Dutch sources. Includes astronomical diagrams including representations of the cosmographical hypotheses of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe, and a diagram of day-length. There are also two maps of the moon's surface, one based on Hevelius's moon map (which Seller reissued in the 1670s), and one conjectural map. Decorated with zodiac symbols, scenes of the four seasons and cratures representing the elements of air, earth, fire and water. A map from 'Atlas Maritimus', or the Sea Atlas; being a book of maritime charts (other copies at PBE6856 and PBE6862).

Object Details

ID: PBE6862(1)
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Seller, John; Darby, John
Places: World
Date made: 1675
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Printed area 44.5 x 55 cm, on sheet 45 x 55.5cm.