File:Map of the World Hakluyt Vol I.png

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The "Wright/Molyneux" Map of the World from Hakluyt's ''Principal Navigations'', Vol. I.

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English:
Caption: Map of the World... This is a facsimile of the Map sometimes, but rarely, found in copies of the Second Edition of The Principall Navigations; it is now believed to be the Map alluded to by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene 2. in the passage 'He does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies.' It is also held to be the first map engraved in England upon the projection called Mercator's, but which was really the work of Edward Wright, mathematician and hydrographer, and author of Certaine Errors in Navigation, 1599.
Date 1600, reprinted 1903
Source The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation..., Vol. I, Glasgow: James MacLehose & Sons, 1903, p. 356.
Author Edward Wright, after the c. 1592 globe of Emery Molyneux
Other versions
  • tiny copy of the 1600 original
    tiny copy of the 1600 original
  • larger but still illegible copy of the 1600 original from a 1903 facsimile scanned by U Adelaide
    larger but still illegible copy of the 1600 original from a 1903 facsimile scanned by U Adelaide
  • large legible copy of the 1600 original
    large legible copy of the 1600 original
  • large illegible copy of the 1657 rev. ed. (Wright–Moxon)
    large illegible copy of the 1657 rev. ed. (Wright–Moxon)

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