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| Keywords: WrightMolyneux-ChartoftheWorld-c1599.jpg A Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection c 1599 sometimes known as the Wright “Molyneux Map Based on Edward Wright's projection of a globe engraved by English globe-maker Emery Molyneux in 1592 it was the first map to use Wright's improvements on Mercator's projection and was regarded as 16th-century cartographic landmark Unlike many contemporary maps and charts that represented the often fantastic speculations of their makers Wright's map has a minimum of detail and leaves areas blank wherever geographic information was lacking These undefined areas are especially evident along Wright's coastlines Wright's map is also one of the earliest maps to use the name Virginia The map is alluded to in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night when Maria says teasingly of Malvolio He does smile his face into more lynes than is in the new Mappe with the augmentation of the Indies See cite web Novus Orbis Images of the New World part 3 http //www lib virginia edu/small/exhibits/lewis_clark/novus_orbis3 html Lewis Clark The Maps of Exploration 1507 1814 Albert H and Shirley Small Special Collections Library University of Virginia 2008-01-31 2008-02-07 Vol 3 1600 of cite book Hakluyt Richard The Principal Navigations Voiages Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation Made by Sea or Overland at Any Time Within the Compasse of these 1500 1600 Yeeres c London G Bishop R Newberie R Barker 1598 “1600 3 vols From the website of the http //iris lib virginia edu/infocomm/LEWIS/test/show_item2 pl image images/Wright_1599_final sid template http //www lib virginia edu/small/exhibits/lewis_clark/lg_html/MrSid_Tplt html ref http //www lib virginia edu/small/exhibits/lewis_clark/novus_orbis3 html head Wright 20A 20Chart 20of 20the 20World 20on 20Mercator 27s 20Projection Albert H and Shirley Small Special Collections Library University of Virginia c 1599 Edward Wright 100px WrightMolyneux-ChartoftheWorld-c1599-large jpg PD-old Maps by Edward Wright Molyneux globes Old maps of the world Richard Hakluyt | ||||
