EB1 Plate LXXXVII
Plate LXXXVII from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed. A diagram of an armillary sphere and map of the world as two equatorial orthographic projections of the western and eastern hemispheres as known c. 1771.
- Date
- 1763
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Credited to Andrew Bell, engraver. The map was actually drawn by Andrew Dury and engraved by Thomas Kitchin in 1761 and then edited and reprinted in 1763 and 1764
- Place
- the world with orthographic projection
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 2,768 × 3,337 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.
Credit line
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