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Mapping our world : terra incognita to Australia.

Title
Mapping our world : terra incognita to Australia.
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  • Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia, [2013]
  • ©2013

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National Library of Australia, issuing body.
Description
xxix, 256 pages : color illustrations, maps; 27 x 30 cm
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Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Mapping our world : Terra Incognita to Australia", on display at the National Library of Australia from 7 November 2013 until 10 March 2014"--Title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index.
Contents
  • Principal partner's foreword / Andrew Smith -- Foreword / Anne-Marie Schwirtlich -- Mapping our World / Nat Williams -- Terra Incognita To Australia / Martin Woods, Susannah Helman -- The Early Printed Maps Collection of The National Library of Australia / Martin Woods -- Part I -- The Very First World Map? Late Babylonian map of the world -- Tjapangati's Map; Jon Rhodes, The maps to Marruwa -- Collaborations; Four maps from the Daisy Bates Collection -- Stories From The Night Sky; Artist unknown, The Milky Way; Gulbidja Bara, The Magellanic Clouds -- We Are All Navigators; Michael Nelson Jakamarra, Five Dreamings -- The Antipodes; Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio -- The Habitable World; Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia --
  • Part II -- The T-O Map; St Isidore of Seville, The Etymologies -- Updating The Roman World; Anglo-Saxon world map -- The World In Miniature; Psalter world map -- A Beatus Map; Beatus de Liébana, Commentary on the Apocalypse -- From Star-Taker To Sextant; ibn Ahmad Khalaf, Astrolabe -- Squeezing An Encyclopaedia Into A Map; Ramsey Abbey Higden map -- Part III -- Rediscovering Ptolemy; Claudius Ptolemy, Cosmographia -- The Riddle Of Cattigara; Lorenz Fries, Map of Asia beyond the Ganges -- Heavenly Woodcuts; Hartmann Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle -- Qui Comenza El Mar Scuro: Here Begins The Dark Sea; Fra Mauro, Map of the world -- A Benedictine Monk's World View; Andreas Walsperger, World map -- A Catalan Merchant And His Markets; Petrus Roselli, Sea chart of the Mediterranean -- The Southern Cross Revealed; Andrea Corsali, Letter to Giuliano de Medici; C. Julius Hyginus, Poetica Astronomica -- A Matter Of Perspective; Johannes Honter, The Southern Constellations -- New Constellations; Willem Jansz. Blaeu, Celestial globe -- Measuring The Southern Skies; Johann Bayer, Uranometria -- Spheres Of Influence; Diogo Ribeiro, Planisphere -- Far From Lisbon; Diogo Homem, Chart of the Pacific Ocean and Chart of the North Indian Ocean, China Sea and part of the Pacific Ocean -- Reconciling Columbus And Ptolemy; The Gilt Globe -- Henry Viii's Atlas; Jean Rotz, The Boke of Idrography -- The Mysterious 'Iave La Grande'; Harleian or Dauphin map -- Terra Australis Not Yet Known; Oronce Fine, The New World of Countries and Islands Unknown to the Ancients -- Where In The World Was India South? Heinrich Bünting, Cosmographia Universalis -- The Mercator Projection; Gerard Mercator, A new and augmented representation of the world -- Rethinking The Southern Continent; New Guinea and Polar hemispheres -- Ortelius' Great World Map; Abraham Ortelius, New world map -- The First Modern Atlas; Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum -- Australia In 1545; Cyriaco Jacob zum Barth, Astronomia: Teutsch Astronomei --
  • Part IV -- The Indian Ocean World; Petrus Plancius, A new world map, updated in many places; Jan Huygen van Linschoten, His Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies -- Austrialia Del Espiritu Santo; Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Memorial to Philip III of Spain -- Hessel Gerritsz, Master Cartographer; Hessel Gerritsz, Chart of Eendracht Land; Chart of the Malay Archipelago and Australia -- For The Dutch Republic, The Great Pacific; Hessel Gerritsz, Map of the Pacific Ocean -- At A Safe Distance; Johannes Janssonius, The East Indies; Cornelis Danckerts and Melchior Tavernier, Map of the entire world -- Hartog's Discovery; Journal of the Nassau Fleet in the years 1623, 1624, 1625, and 1626 -- The Company; Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), VOC bond for 12,000 gulden; Jetso van Vos, VOC ship's log -- A Journey To The East Indies; Isaak de Graaf, From the Cape of Good Hope to the Sunda Strait -- A Stolen Chart; Isaak de Graaf, The Indian Ocean showing routes between the Cape of Good Hope and the Sunda Strait -- Shipwrecked; François Pelsaert, The Unlucky Voyage of the Ship Batavia; Bellarmine jug and cob from the wreck of the VOC ship Vergulde Draeck -- Tasman's Journal; Abel Jansz. Tasman, The Huydecoper Journal -- New Holland's Birth Certificate; Joan Blaeu, Eastern and Asian archipelago -- Tasman's Legacy; Abel Jansz. Tasman, Bonaparte Tasman map -- 'Terre Australe', East Of New Holland; Melchisédech Thévenot, Account of Diverse Curious Voyages -- 'Lovers Of Praiseworthy Sea-Navigation'; Hendrick Doncker, Sea Atlas; Pieter Goos, East Indies navigation chart; Pieter Goos, East Indies navigation chart -- Antarctic World Views; Henricus Hondius, Polus Antarcticus; Nicholas Visscher, A new and very accurate map of the world -- The Grandest Of Maps; Justus Danckerts, Wall map of the East Indies -- An Unfinished Beauty; Johannes Loots and Romeyn de Hooghe, Unfinished wall map of the world, eastern hemisphere -- A Tale Of Two Worlds; Johannes Janssonius, Atlantis Majoris -- Proof Of The Daring Spirit Of His Ancestors; The De Vlamingh Plate -- The Last Great Dutch Voyage To Australia; Gerard van Keulen, The South Land visited by Willem de Vlamingh in the months of January and February 1697 --
  • Part V -- The Secret Of The Sea; Sir Robert Dudley, The Secret of the Sea -- The Elusive East Coast Of New Holland; John Thornton, A draught of the coast of New Holland, and parts adjacent; Samuel Thornton, The English Pilot -- 'To See What That Country Would Afford Us'; William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World; Mariner's callipers -- Master Globe-Maker; Vincenzo Coronelli, Globe gores -- New Holland According To The Globe And Sun; Richard Cushee, Terrestrial globe -- Bel Et Utile; Didier Robert de Vaugondy, Reduced map of Australasia -- 'No Longer Incognita'; Emanuel Bowen, A complete map of the Southern Continent, survey'd by Capt. Abel Tasman -- 'Our Trusty Friend, The Watch'; Norman Banham, John Harrison's first and fourth marine timekeepers (replicas of H1 and H4) -- On The Verge Of Greatness; Alexander Dalrymple, Chart of that part of Papua visited by M. Bougainville in 1768 -- Circumnavigating The World; Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, Voyage Around the World -- Hands Across The Sea ; Jean-Baptiste d'Après de Mannevillette, Le Neptune Oriental -- 'Little Remains Now To Be Done'; James Cook (surveyor) and Isaac Smith (chartmaker), King George's Island or Otaheite; Newzeland; Part of the sea coast of New South Wales or the east coast of New Holland; A sketch of Botany Bay; Sea coast of New South Wales on the east coast of New Holland; Tupaia (surveyor) and James Cook (chartmaker), The Society Islands; Sydney Parkinson, View of part of the eastern coast of New Holland -- 'Any News Of La Pérouse?'; Jean Nicolas Buache, Map of the Pacific Ocean drawn by order of the King for the voyage of La Pérouse -- A Revolution In Charting; Charles François Beautemps-Beaupré, Atlas of the Voyage of Bruny-Dentrecasteaux -- The Baudin Expedition; Louis Claude de Saulces Freycinet, Chart of the north river; Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (artist) and Claude-François Fortier (engraver), Coastal profiles of Van Diemen's Land and New Holland -- An Account Of The Voyage To Terres Australes; Pierre Bernard Milius, Manuscript journal -- Global Roaming; Louis Claude de Saulces Freycinet, General map of New Holland -- Péron's Grand Statement; Plan of Sydney -- 'This Excellent Timekeeper'; Thomas Earnshaw, Box chronometer, serial No. 520; Long case astronomical regulator -- Coastal Profiles; William Westall, Views on the north and south coast of Australia -- Matthew Flinders: Intrepid Navigator; Matthew Flinders, Gulph of Carpentaria and the neighbouring parts; Part of the coast of New South Wales with its Barrier Reefs; Sheet V - South coast; South coast of Terra Australis; Sketches of the heads of No. 12 and No. 14 Inlets -- Terra Australis Or Australia; Matthew Flinders, General Chart of Terra Australis or Australia.
Call Number
Map Div.+ 14-4610
ISBN
  • 9780642278098
  • 0642278091
OCLC
870974980
Title
Mapping our world : terra incognita to Australia.
Publisher
Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Type of Content
text
cartographic image
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index.
Added Author
National Library of Australia, issuing body.
Research Call Number
Map Div.+ 14-4610
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