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Subject: Re: 1615 Jannsonius map actually post-1790?
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:58:25 -0400
From: Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


I would consider posting the question to the MapHist Forum
(http://www.maphist.nl/forum/). Also, since Peter van der Krogt has
detailed knowledge of Jansson's work

(http://cartography.geog.uu.nl/research/atlantes.html

; vol. 1 deals
with the earlier Jansson's atlases), you could ask him directly.

               Joel Kovarsky

On 4/30/2013 8:30 AM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library,
UW Milwaukee wrote:
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> Subject:        1615 Jannsonius map actually post-1790?
> Date:   Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:07:48 +0000
> From:   Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     AMC <[log in to unmask]>, Carto-soc
> <[log in to unmask]>, mapsL <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
> The National Library of Australia has what we thought was a double
> hemispherical map of the world by Nicolaes van Geelkercken and Jan
> Jansson, printed in Amsterdam in 1615 (according to the cartouche in the
> eastern hemisphere). http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2702518
>
> However a patron has pinted out that next to Taurus/Orion and Gemini in
> the surrounding zodiac feature the "petit telescope de Herschel" and the
> "Gr[an]d telescope de Herschel" respectively.
> The latter appears to be Sir William Herschel's (1739-1822) 40-foot
> telescope, built 1785-89 and used up until 1815.
> So the map appears to have been (anonymously) revised and reprinted
> ca.1790 or later!
>
> Given there is no obvious publisher/place/date, does anyone know
> anything about this map? Who might have produced it, and when?
> Did the 1615 original have the Zodiac surrounds as well, so that the
> reviser has simply added the telescopes,  or has the reviser added the
> whole celestial surrounds?
>
> Any leads appreciated!
>
> Dr Brendan Whyte
>
> Assistant Curator of Maps
>
> National Library of Australia
>

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