HarvardMapCollectionさんのイラストまとめ

Presenting a more expansive view of #TierradelFuego and its relation to the greater region of #Patagonia, here in an inset on a 1722(?) French chart of the Strait of Magellan, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by Jean-Frédéric Bernard. #maps #HarvardLibrary

#Cincinnati, Ohio, on a #map from 1840(?), when paddle wheel steamboats plied the mighty Ohio River; drawn by B. Oertly and lithographed and published by Otto Onken. #HarvardLibrary

Making note of the striking morning assemblage this month in the eastern sky of the #planets known to Ptolemy; here on a plate of the comprehensible universe from the 1708 edition by Valk & Schenk of Cellarius' Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660). #maps #HarvardLibrary

The allure of the North continues, with an 1800 German #map of the #FaroeIslands (inset) and an interestingly compact #Iceland, by J.C.M. Reinecke and based upon a French survey map from 1776. #HarvardLibrary

And speaking of "Diana's Foresters" who roam under the light of the #Moon, here one fourth of an 1834 early lithographic print, the first to present the Moon in quadrants, and created by an amateur, Wilhelm Beer, and professional astronomer, Johann Mädler. #maps #HarvardLibrary

Another plate from the Buache/de L'Isle physical atlas Cartes et Tables de la Géographie Physique ou Naturelle; here, along with a map of the island Fernando de Noronha, is an 18th c. view of the sea floor near the equator between South America and Africa. #maps #HarvardLibrary

Johann Thomas Kraus' 18C #map of #Augsburg, 1740-1760 published in M. Seutter's Atlas novus. #HarvardLibrary High-res: https://t.co/c0TSqE6Yr7

#Alexandria, Egypt, 1400 years after the Greek astronomer/geographer/astrologer Claudius Ptolemy pondered the heavens and earth, here presenting the Mediterranean city's ancient ruins and grand contemporary edifices; from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1575. #maps #HarvardLibrary

From the Americas to the Iberian Peninsula and the great "City of the Three Cultures" loftily settled above the Tagus River: #Toledo. From a 1566 drawing by Hoefnagel in the 1572 German edition of the Civitates, with buildings topped in vivid reds & blues #maps #HarvardLibrary

Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe's 1760s "Plan der Stadt und Festung Madrass in Ost-Indien"

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#Chennai #HarvardLibrary