Educational Map Series: Nova Reperta, 1600 Map of the Western Hemisphere WA vintage map The orientation of the chart

The orientation of the chart is north to the right

that offer up opportunities for fishing and catching big blue crabs

much was presumed about Africa’s interior because it was not penetrated by Europeans until centuries later

and highlighting how it’s much less habitable than Europe

taking over the Chicago Tribune's printing shop

Educational Map Series: Nova Reperta, 1600 Map of the Western Hemisphere WA vintage map The orientation of the chartMap of the Western Hemisphere Say goodbye to the old age and hello to a new era Jan van der Straet in his title plate engraving from his print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times), designed around the 1850s, echos those words through his striking depiction of an evolving world. Map of the Western Hemisphere is one of nineteen plates in the series that was published in Antwerp by Philips Galle in his 1600 edition of Americae