A Special Collections Exhibition
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Mapping the New World |
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Herman
Moll, World map, c. 1700
During
the seventeenth century, cartographic leadership passed from the Portuguese and
Spaniards to the French, Dutch and English, who were engaged in mapping the
world that they increasingly controlled. This rare map is by Herman Moll, active
in England at the beginning of the eighteenth century. It shows a world in which
there are still mysterious areas, particularly in the north Pacific Ocean. But
it is also a document that could safely be used to navigate in many parts of the
world, though not, as our detail shows, in the Gulf of California.
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