A New and Correct Map of the World
In 1702 the world map and the star chart were still the same argument. This 1702 world map lays the globe down according to the newest observations and discoveries of the day, then surrounds it with the cosmology that framed them: the Ptolemaic, Copernican and Tychonic systems shown side by side, as if the question were still open. It was.
The main sheet carries relief shown pictorially, along with the trade winds, the monsoons, and the variation of the compass, the working knowledge of captains and merchant houses at the turn of the eighteenth century.
The surrounding insets include:
- Northern and southern celestial hemispheres, plus a coelestial planisphere
- The world projected on the plane of the Equinoctial, the Ecliptic, the horizon, and on equidistant meridians and parallels
- The face of the moon and the face of the sun after F.A. Kircher
- Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter with his four satellites, after Cassini
- The sun enlightening the earth and the moon
Map Shop prints this reproduction from a high resolution scan of the original held by the Library of Congress, digitally restored.

