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Sneak peek at some of the amazing maps and atlases selected by GIS Resident Librarian, Taylor Hixson, for you to see here in Special Collections on November 13th in celebration of Geography Awareness Week.
From top to bottom:
Images 1-3:
Details from a 1486 imprint of Ptolemy’s Beatissimo patri Paulo Secundo Pontifici Maximo, donis Nicolaus
Germanus : On me fugit beatissime pater. Cu[m]q[ue] summo ingenio
exquisitaq[ue] doctrina Ptolomeus Cosmographus pinxisse in bis aliquid
nouari attemptaremus forte, ut hic noster labor in multor[um]
reprehensiones incurreret
Image 4:
Compass detail from a 1575 imprint of Abraham Ortelius’
Theatrum orbis terrarum : opus nunc denuò ab ipso auctore
recognitum, multisquè locis castigatum, & quamplurimis nouis
tabulis atquè commentarijs auctum.
Images 5 and 6:
Illustration with moveable parts and binding made of manuscript waste. Part of Peter Apian’s 1540 Cosmographia.
Image 7:
Engraving found in
a manuscript study, circa 1592-1660, of the geographical, political, and administrative
character of urban centers in various countries over several periods in
history.
Primarily the work of Joannem Janssonium (Amsterdam, 1588-1665), Jean
Boisseau (Paris, fl. 1637-1658), Nicolas Berey (Paris, 1606-1665),
Jodocus Hondius [II?] (Amsterdam, 1594-1629), Jacques Honervogt, and
Jean le Clerc (Paris, 1560-1621).
