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English: A map of the world as two equatorial orthographic projections of the western and eastern hemispheres as known c. 1761 from Plate LXXXVII from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed. This map contains examples of: New Holland (Australia), Baffin Bay, Baffin Island, Cape Blanco, New Albion, Viceroyalty of New Spain, Nova Scotia, Viceroyalty of Peru, Viceroyalty of New Granada, unspecified phantom islands, Terra incognita, Saint Helena, Khoikhoi, South East Cape, Van Diemen's Land, Gulf of Carpentaria, New Britain, Nuytsland, Tartary, Veneto, Novaya Zemlya, Guinea, Sahara, Jerusalem, Arabia |
Date | Drawn 1761, reprinted 1763 & 1764, edited & reengraved 1771. |
Source | Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 680 ff. Uncredited reprint of Maps 1 & 2 in the 1763 (reprinted 1764) A New General and Universal Atlas... |
Author | Andrew Dury, engraved by Thomas Kitchen. Credited to Andrew Bell, engraver. |
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Annotations InfoField | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
Paragua [correct Paraguay in original]
I. de Saxemburg [original has French I. de Saxembourg]
Puito [original has correct Quito]
T. de Naits [original has correct T. de Nuits]
C. Frio [fixing typo in the original]
Ireland [correcting Dury's Irland]
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current | 20:15, 15 January 2023 | ![]() | 2,768 × 1,550 (3.34 MB) | LlywelynII (talk | contribs) | Uploaded a work by Andrew Bell, engraver. from ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'', 1st ed., Vol. II, [https://archive.org/details/1771EncyclopediaBritannicaNLS/First%20edition%2C%201771%20-%20Encyclopaedia%20Britannica%3B%20or%2C%20A%20dictionary%20of%20arts%20and%20sciences%2C%20compiled%20upon%20a%20new%20plan%20%E2%80%A6%2C%20Volume%202%2C%20C-L/page/n649/mode/2up p. 680 ff.] with UploadWizard |
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