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| Keywords: Nova totius Terrarum Orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula (Hendrik Hondius).jpg This is an image of Nova totius Terrarum Orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula a map of the world created by Hendrik Hondius in 1630 and published the following year in the atlas Atlantis Maioris Appendix Among its claims to notability is the fact that it was the first dated map published in an atlas and therefore the first widely available map to show any part of Australia the only previous map to do so being Hessel Gerritsz' 1627 Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht Chart of the Land of Eendracht which was not widely distributed The Australian coastline shown is part of the west coast of Cape York Peninsula discovered by Jan Carstensz in 1623 Curiously the map does not show the west coast features shown in Gerritsz' Caert This is a scan of the copy belonging to the State Library of New South Wales Access to it <big>was</big> available at http //image sl nsw gov au/cgi-bin/ebindshow pl doc heritage/a1439;seq 13 New South Wales The graphical user interface provided does not support downloading the full image at full resolution but the back end <big>could</big> be cajoled to do so by manually editing the CGI arguments in the url to http //image sl nsw gov au/cgi-bin/mrsid/image_jpeg pl client heritage/a1439 image a128994 sid x 2624 y 1844 level 0 width 5248 height 3688 NSW² The original map was executed in 1630 and published in 1631 Henricus Hondius PD-Art This is the original version; a colour balanced version is at Image Nova totius Terrarum Orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula Hendrik Hondius balanced jpg 17th-century maps of the world Old maps of the world Maps by Hendrik Hondius the Younger Double hemisphere world maps Global maps centered Cape Verde Islands meridian 1630 maps 1630s maps of the world | ||||
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