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| Keywords: Gerard de Jode 1593 Map Southern hemisphere.jpg la Hemisperium ab aequinoctiali linea ad circulum poli antarctici Antwerp 1593 en Map of the Southern hemispere Antwerp 1593 Color print from copper engraving printer Arnold Coninx 33 x 52 cm Society of Jesus in Prague New Town Gerard de Jode 1593 File Gerard de Jode 1593 Map Northern hemisphere jpg the Northern hemispere part The map is an example of the imaginatory powers of early cartographers Gerard de Jode has visualized the appearance of the Earth as if seen from orbit at a vantage point above the celestial pole Gerard de Jode's map was published in an atlas by Cornelis de Jode Speculum Orbis Terrae of which the library of the Society of Jesus in Prague New Town has a copy This is a scanned image from a calendar the Czech Repulic and the World 2009 Factual information is sourced from calendar commentary written by Prof Eva Semotanová The Southern Continent - Terra Austalis incognita - bears a large inscription which translated reads <blockquote>The great and admired western island America now called the fourth part of the world; most wealthy most fertile and having everything necessary for life Unknown to the ancient philosophers cosmographers and potentates and first discovered by command of Charles V In this peninsula and isthmus are the greatest variations in climate and things for the inhabitants are subject to four zones one frigid another torrid the third and fourth temperate Terra Australis incognita The unknown Southland</blockquote> Another inscription reads Chasdia called by others Tierra del Fuego A third inscription says <blockquote>Circulus Antarcticus Those who live below this circle whose area is greater than the whole of Europe have a continuous day of 6 months and of course from the autumn equinox to the spring equinox the inhabitants have a frigid zone The Pole in the Zenith perpendicular and vertical </blockquote> A fourth inscription says Portuguese sailing from the Cape of Good Hope saw a promontory of this land stretching southward but they did not visit it PD-old-100 Old maps of Antarctica Maps by Gerard de Jode Ships on maps 1593 maps Cornelis de Jode Terra incognita | ||||
