Map of the globe stretched and flattened into a circular plane (azimuthal projection), with two movable arms to calculate time in places around the world
Alternative Title:
New standard map of the world
Description:
Map of the globe stretched and flattened into a circular plane., Includes longitude and time calculator and diagrams showing June and December solstices., Border shows "sun-time in minutes.", and Text on verso.
Imperfect: torn along bottom, with no loss of text. and Insets: Terre-Neuve -- Canal de la Manche -- Ile de Cuba -- Détroit de Gibraltar -- Archipelgree -- Détroit de Perim.
Publisher:
[International Telecommunication Union],
Subject (Name):
Van Hoven, C.
Subject (Topic):
Telecommunication--Maps., Telegraph lines--Maps., and World maps
"Photolithographed copy of Gerard Mercator's Mapamundi of 1538 from an original engraving in the library of the American Geographical Society.", Relief shown pictorially., and Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
Julius Bien & Co., photo-lith,
Subject (Geographic):
World--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
American Geographical Society of New York and Julius Bien & Co
Subject (Topic):
Early maps, Early maps--Facsimiles, World maps, and World maps--Early works to 1800
A photomechanical print probably created during the early twentieth century as a forgery that reproduces twelve gores for a globe published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller based on his wall map, Universalis Cosmographia (1507). and Evidence of the forgery includes the superimposition of the gores over glue already on the paper surface, which suggests use of a sheet removed from a period volume, as well as details that replicate gores from an authentic woodcut print formerly owned by Austrian cartographer Franz Hauslab and acquired by the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota in 1954
Description:
A gore is a roughly triangular or wedge-shaped segment of an object, as found in domes and globes, where a sector of a curved surface, or a curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, and flattened to a plane surface with little distortion., Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1519) was a German cartographer. His wall map Universalis Cosmographia (1507) and printed globes contemporarily derived from it were the first published globular maps of the Western Hemisphere and the first maps on which the name America appears in honor of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)., In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., and Publication place and date of creation supplied by the cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
America
Subject (Name):
Hauslab, Franz, 1798-1883., Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512., and Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519
Subject (Topic):
Forgeries, Globes, World maps, Discovery and exploration, and Name
Esso Marketers Esso Standard Oil Company General Drafting Company
Published / Created:
[1942?]
Call Number:
11hd 1942
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Alternative Title:
War map, featuring transportation, the key to every successful campaign
Description:
"Copyright, General Drafting Co., Inc.", Accompanying texts: [1.] Flattening the globe -- [2.] Over the top of the world -- [3.] Transportation: Key to victory., Ancillary map: [North pole.], Index., and Text and ills. on verso.
"A Fortune map.", "North polar azimuthal equidistant projection.", "Supplement to Fortune, March, 1942.", and Includes text and maps of "The Atlantic bridge" and "The Pacific vastness."
Ancillary maps on verso: [1.] The far east. Scale [ca. 1:40 900 000] at equator -- [2.] Western hemisphere defense map. Scale [ca. 1:35 000 000]. and Legend and dates of war declarations.
