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Map of the World Hakluyt Vol I
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Map of the World Hakluyt Vol I

Caption: Map of the World. This is a facsimile of the Map sometimes, but rarely, found in copies of the Second Edition of The Principall Navigations; it is now believed to be the Map alluded to by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene 2. in the passage 'He does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies.' It is also held to be the first map engraved in England upon the projection called Mercator's, but which was really the work of Edward Wright, mathematician and hydrographer, and author of Certaine Errors in Navigation, 1599.

Date
1600–1903
Mapmaker / publisher
Edward Wright, after the c. 1592 globe of Emery Molyneux
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
3,097 × 2,141 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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"Map of the World Hakluyt Vol I" (1600–1903). Edward Wright, after the c. 1592 globe of Emery Molyneux, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_World_Hakluyt_Vol_I.png

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