MAPPA HYDROGRAPHICA

Description:

California as an island with flat northern coast sloping southeast. Volcano pictured near northern end. Double dotted lines connecting two symbols for a vortex drawn across island just below volcano. Map is decorated with faced quarter moon at top center, black clouds around henispheres, and symbolic figures representing the winds blowing from each of the four corners. Neurautter excudit (lower right, below border). Situan inventio Ao. 1723. (lower center, above title and within symbol key). Issued in his: Mare philosophicum Thalassophilis ad perscrutandum propositum, seu universa philosophia Aristotelico-Neutristica. -- [Prague] : Wolffgang Wickhart, 1724. Vilkum, F. X., Hydrografie..., in Kralovska ceska spalecnost nauk (Prague, 1944). [Honorio Czechura].

Creator:

Czechura, Honorius Martin, 1688-1726

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Subject:

California as an island and World--Maps

Rights:

Image from the Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

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This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

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More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/zq821nd1980