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

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2022-09-09

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

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2022-08-25

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

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2022-06-08

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

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2022-04-29

And speaking of "Diana's Foresters" who roam under the light of the 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.

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2022-02-18

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.

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2022-01-20

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

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2022-01-15

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.

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2021-10-01

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

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2021-07-08

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

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2021-05-05

From the polar antipodes to the equator, 2 maps by van Ewyk, using isogonic lines to display the variation of the compass, "or the marvelous concatenated accord of regulated & never-ending movements of the living magnetic power; as we found them in 1750."

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2021-04-24

From Ptolemy's 2nd c. to Beatus' 8th c. (here in a 1929 facsimile by Konrad Miller). The tripartite world is encircled with water; East, where Paradise lay, is at the top of the the Red Sea unmistakable in the South. A spatial-temporal worldview

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2021-01-13

A day late for but I'm excited to do some printing in outer space! From Samuel M'Cullough's 1840, 8 sheet of the visible heavens.

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2020-01-10

For and here's a of the ocean around It was published in 1898 to show "John Murray's proposed scheme for Antarctic exploration."

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2018-06-08

It's Day on Saturday! Create & illustrate hilarious verses at 2 to 3pm & 2 to 3:30pm

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2017-06-01