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Here for your enjoyment is a one-of-a-kind image of the New World; Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula / auctore F. de Wit. It was created in 1660.
World maps.
Relief shown pictorially. Includes col. ill. Insets: Polus arcticus -- Polus antarcticus -- Polus septentrionalis -- Systema mundi juxtamentem Claudii Ptolemaei Alexand -- Genuinum mundi systema secundum N. Copernici hypothesin -- Polus meridionalis. Scale ca. 1:80,000,000. At equator (W 1800--E 1800/N 900--S 900).
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