WORLD MAP HENRICUS HONDIUS 1630 1000 PIECE PUZZLE

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Double Hemisphere World Map Henricus Hondius 1630 1000 Piece Puzzle

The Antique Map Collection – The World’s Most Beautiful Jigsaw Puzzles

Antique maps are treasure troves of detail and interest at a time when much of the earth’s surface was still undiscovered.  they provide us with a view into a world which was full of superstition and myth, and yet at the same time, in search of enlightenment and reason.

The world they represent is a world full of assumptions and false certainties combined with the air of superiority of the dominant European Civilisation of the time.

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula

This famous map of the wordk, known as Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula was created by Hendik Hondius in 1630.  The following year, it was published in Amsterdam, in the atlas Atlantis Maioris appendix and in the Atlas sive Cosmographicae.  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 Hessell Gerritsz 1627 Caert van’t  Landt van d’Eendracht (Chart of the Land of Eendracht), which was not widely distributed or recognised.  The Australian coastline shown is part of the west coast of Cape York Peninsula, discovered by Jan Carstensz in 1623.  Curiously, the map does not show the west coast features shown in Gerritsz Caert.