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Veteris Orbis Climata ex Strabo
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Veteris Orbis Climata ex Strabo

1700 Cellarius Map of Asia

A rare and beautifully engraved map of the old world divided into seven climatic zones according to the Ancient Greek geographer Strabo. Depicts Europe, Asia, and northern Africa. Surrounded by seven wind heads. At the northern polar caps is a wonderful allegorical vignette of the mythological wind god Aiolos whose floating prison island of Aiolia constrained the storm sprits Anemoi Thuellai and Aellai. Here Aiolos is shows restraining the North Wind, depicted as a winged dog, with a chain. Cartographically this map corresponds with the late 17th century view of the world. Japan, Korea and Kamtschaka are absent and the Caspian Sea is drawn larger east-west than north-south.

Date
c. 1706
Place
Africa
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
3,774 × 2,643 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-Art (PD-old-100); no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Veteris Orbis Climata ex Strabo" (c. 1706). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1700_Cellarius_Map_of_Asia,_Europe_and_Africa_according_to_Strabo_-_Geographicus_-_OrbisClimata-cellarius-1700.jpg

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