Collection of nine images including astronomical instruments, celestial charts, and a world map.
Title devised by cataloger. English, French and Latin. James Ferguson article from Gent. Mag. March 1769. Nine printed images and two panels of printed text mounted on paper within hand drawn frames colored yellow. From various sources, unidentified except for the Ferguson article. Mounted on cloth and stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 312A.
- Date
- 1769
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Ferguson, James
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- chart
- Original size
- 10,472 × 8,903 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"Collection of nine images including astronomical instruments, celestial charts, and a world map." (1769). Ferguson, James. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Collection_of_nine_images_including_astronomical_instruments,_celestial_charts,_and_a_world_map._LOC_2013593153.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 11077.
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