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Scientia terrarum et coelorum, or, The heavens and earth astronomically and geographically delineated and display'd : containing the most curious & useful particulars in the solar, starry & mundane systems, faithfully enumerated & delineated according to the latest discoveries

Title
Scientia terrarum et coelorum, or, The heavens and earth astronomically and geographically delineated and display'd : containing the most curious & useful particulars in the solar, starry & mundane systems, faithfully enumerated & delineated according to the latest discoveries / by S. Dunn.
Author
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.
Publication
London : Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, no. 53 in Fleet Street ..., 20th November 1772.

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CartographicSupervised use Map Div. 76-2542Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117

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Additional Authors
  • Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794.
  • Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782.
Description
1 map on 4 sheets : hand col.; 2 hemispheres each 59 cm. in diam., on 110 x 129 cm., sheets 55 x 65 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Alternative Title
Heavens and earth astronomically and geographically delineated and displayed
Subjects
Note
  • Relief shown pictorially.
  • Map shows boundaries, rivers, mountain chains and principal settlements with exploration routes across the oceans.
  • Ferro meridian.
  • Segments of map separately titled: Western hemisphere or the New World by Mr. d'Anville with the new discoveries and several additions -- Eastern hemisphere or the Old World by Mr. d'Anville with the new discoveries and several additions.
  • Includes notes and diagrams about tides, planets, dialing using a globe, scales, geographical definitions, solar eclipses.
  • Ancillary maps and charts, clockwise from top left: The Solar System -- The Northern Hemisphere -- The Southern Hemisphere -- An astronomical latitude & longitude analemma -- The Analemma -- The vicissitude of the seasons explained -- Selenography or a map of the Moon ... -- A chart of the world according to Mercator's projection ...
Call Number
Map Div. 76-2542
OCLC
43222680
Author
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.
Title
Scientia terrarum et coelorum, or, The heavens and earth astronomically and geographically delineated and display'd : containing the most curious & useful particulars in the solar, starry & mundane systems, faithfully enumerated & delineated according to the latest discoveries / by S. Dunn.
Imprint
London : Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, no. 53 in Fleet Street ..., 20th November 1772.
Cartographic Data
Scale [1:42,500,000. At equator] (W 180⁰--E 180⁰/N 90⁰--S 90⁰).
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Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794. Publisher
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782.
Research Call Number
Map Div. 76-2542
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