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EB1 Plate LXXXVII Fig. 2 World
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EB1 Plate LXXXVII Fig. 2 World

A map of the world as two equatorial orthographic projections of the western and eastern hemispheres as known c. 1761 from Plate LXXXVII from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed. This map contains examples of: New Holland (Australia), Baffin Bay, Baffin Island, Cape Blanco, New Albion, Viceroyalty of New Spain, Nova Scotia, Viceroyalty of Peru, Viceroyalty of New Granada, unspecified phantom islands, Terra incognita, Saint Helena, Khoikhoi, South East Cape, Van Diemen's Land, Gulf of Carpentaria, New Britain, Nuytsland, Tartary, Veneto, Novaya Zemlya, Guinea, Sahara, Jerusalem, Arabia

Date
1761–1771
Mapmaker / publisher
Andrew Dury, engraved by Thomas Kitchen. Credited to Andrew Bell, engraver
Place
the world with orthographic projection
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
2,768 × 1,550 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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"EB1 Plate LXXXVII Fig. 2 World" (1761–1771). Andrew Dury, engraved by Thomas Kitchen. Credited to Andrew Bell, engraver, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EB1_Plate_LXXXVII_Fig._2_World.png

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