Carte de la mer d'Ecosse 1693
Nautical Chart of North and West Scotland. Carte de la mer d'Ecosse contenant les isles et costes septentrionales et occidentales d'Ecosse et les costes septentrionales d'Irlande. Bathymetry shown by soundings. Shows grid, direction lines (from compass roses and from other points), shallow places, rocks, some settlements along the coast and some place names. Scale statement reads: "Echelle de Lieues Marines de France et d'Angleterre à 20 par degré" -- "Echelle de Lieues d'Allemagne à 15 par degré." Orientated with north to the left. Borders filled in with graduations of latitude and longitude. Decoration: coasts shaded and outlined in color and three elaborated compass roses with direction lines radiating. Map originally in "Le Neptune Francois, ou, Atlas nouveau des cartes marines"; although this atlas was published by Jaillot in Paris, it was printed in Amsterdam by P. Mortier" and published 1693; an English edition with title "The French Neptune" appeared also the same year. Scale and publication date taken from Koeman's description. Shows the west coast of Scotland, including the Hebrides, Orkney and part of the Shetland islands; part of the English coast as far south as Lancas
- Date
- December 31, 1693
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708
- Place
- Ireland
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- chart
- Original size
- 10,305 × 6,976 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 70 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-70-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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