1665 Kircher Map
One of the earliest depictions of Southern Africa, this shows the source of the Nile in Ptolemy's "Mountains of the Moon." Printed by Athanasius Kircher in Amsterdam in 1665.
- Date
- 1665
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Athanasius Kircher
- Place
- Africa
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 7,248 × 6,079 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its US copyright has expired (published before 1931).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"1665 Kircher Map" (1665). Athanasius Kircher, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1665_Kircher_Map.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 235227.
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