Maps

Maps have allways fascinated me. I like to know where i am and also where other people are too. I think its important to know your own home, country and planet and maps are a brilliant invention to help humans to learn and navigate around the globe.

I also find it an amazing feet how early explorers drew the first maps. I find it hard to imagine the skill in drawing a shoreline on a boat sailing along the coastline.

This is the Nova totius Terrarum Orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula, a map of the world created by Hendrik Hondius in 1630, and published the following year in the atlas Atlantis Maioris Appendix.

Among its claims to notability is the fact that it was the first dated map published in an atlas, and therefore the first widely available map, to show any part of Australia, the only previous map to do so being Hessel Gerritsz' 1627 Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht ("Chart of the Land of Eendracht"), which was not widely distributed.