Research Catalog

Title

Scientia terrarum et coelorum, or, The heavens and earth astronomically and geographically delineated and display'd : containing the most curious & useful particulars in the solar, starry & mundane systems, faithfully enumerated & delineated according to the latest discoveries / by S. Dunn.

Author

Dunn, Samuel, -1794.

Publication

London : Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, no. 53 in Fleet Street ..., 20th November 1772.

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Additional Authors

• Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794.
• Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782.

Description

1 map on 4 sheets : hand col.; 2 hemispheres each 59 cm. in diam., on 110 x 129 cm., sheets 55 x 65 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Alternative Title

Heavens and earth astronomically and geographically delineated and displayed

Subjects

• Eastern Hemisphere > Maps > Early works to 1800
• Western Hemisphere > Maps > Early works to 1800
• World maps > Early works to 1800

Note

• Relief shown pictorially.
• Map shows boundaries, rivers, mountain chains and principal settlements with exploration routes across the oceans.
• Ferro meridian.
• Segments of map separately titled: Western hemisphere or the New World by Mr. d'Anville with the new discoveries and several additions -- Eastern hemisphere or the Old World by Mr. d'Anville with the new discoveries and several additions.
• Includes notes and diagrams about tides, planets, dialing using a globe, scales, geographical definitions, solar eclipses.
• Ancillary maps and charts, clockwise from top left: The Solar System -- The Northern Hemisphere -- The Southern Hemisphere -- An astronomical latitude & longitude analemma -- The Analemma -- The vicissitude of the seasons explained -- Selenography or a map of the Moon ... -- A chart of the world according to Mercator's projection ...

Call Number

Map Div. 76-2542

OCLC

43222680

Author

Dunn, Samuel, -1794.

Title

Scientia terrarum et coelorum, or, The heavens and earth astronomically and geographically delineated and display'd : containing the most curious & useful particulars in the solar, starry & mundane systems, faithfully enumerated & delineated according to the latest discoveries / by S. Dunn.

Imprint

London : Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, no. 53 in Fleet Street ..., 20th November 1772.

Cartographic Data

Scale [1:42,500,000. At equator] (W 180⁰--E 180⁰/N 90⁰--S 90⁰).

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Added Author

Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794. Publisher

Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 76-2542