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Hemisphere Meridional - Public domain vintage map
Mappemonde ou Description Du Globe Terrestre dressee sur les memoires les plus nouveaux, et assujettie aux observations astronomiques . . . 1752
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Map of the world from BL Royal 20 B XII, f. 4v
Map of the world from BL Royal 20 B XII, ff. 4v-5
Map of the world from BL Royal 14 C IX, ff. 1v-2
Map of the world from BL Royal 15 E III, f. 67v
Map of the Eastern Hemisphere from BL Royal 20 E IX, f. 30
Map of the world from BL Royal 15 E III, f. 67v
World map from BL Eg 2976, f. 62v - Public domain map
Compass of the world from BL Royal 17 C XXXVIII, f. 41v
Map of the world from BL Harley 3035, f. 175v
Map of the world from BL Royal 20 E IX, ff. 29v-30
Summary
Map of the world in two hemispheres. Image taken from ff. 29v-30 of Boke of Idrography (The 'Rotz Atlas'). Written in English.
The BL Royal Manuscript Collection, also known as the Royal Collection, consists of over 2,000 manuscripts that were once owned by the British monarchs, including English and later British kings and queens from the late 12th to the 19th centuries. These manuscripts are notable for their historical and artistic value.
The collection was initially stored in various royal libraries and palaces, such as the Tower of London and Westminster Palace. During the English Civil War in the 17th century and the subsequent Interregnum, many royal treasures, including manuscripts, were dispersed and sold. Some manuscripts were lost, destroyed, or ended up in private hands.
In 1757, King George II donated the Old Royal Library to the British Museum (which later became the British Library), where the manuscripts were integrated into the museum's collections. This marked the formal establishment of the Royal Manuscript Collection within the British Museum.
The geography discoveries and the new printing techniques resulted in maps that can be cheaply produced. Since a globe remains the only accurate way of representing the spherical earth, and any flat representation resulted in distorted projection. In 1569, Mercator published a map of the world specifically intended as an aid to navigation. It used a projection now known by Mercator's name, though it has been used by few others before him, based on a system of latitude and longitude that dated back to Hipparchus. Mercator's projection greatly enlarged territories as they recede from the equator. The distortion of Mercator's projection is a benefit to navigators since Mercator achieves a matching scale for longitude and latitude in every section of the map. A compass course can be plotted at the same angle on any part of Mercator's map. As a result marine charts still use this projection. By the time of his death in 1595, Mercator has either published or prepared large engraved maps, designed for binding into volume form, of France, Germany, Italy, the Balkans, and the British Isles. Mercator's son issues the entire series under the title "Atlas": "Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes." The name becomes the word for a volume of maps.
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