Adina Sommer
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Adina Sommer`s Rare Antique Maps and Contemporary Art
Jutia septentrionalis
| Article ID | EUS3866 |
| Artist | Mercator (1512-1594) |
| Gerardus Mercator (1512 - 1594). He was a cartographer, philosopher and mathematician. He is best known for his work in cartography, in particular the world map of 1569 based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines. He is renowned to the present day as the cartographer who created a world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines. In his own day he was the world's most famous geographer but in addition he had interests in theology, philosophy, history, mathematics and magnetism as well as being an accomplished engraver, calligrapher and maker of globes and scientific instruments. He wrote few books but much of his knowledge is to be found in the copious legends on his wall maps and the prefaces that he composed for his atlas ,the first in which the term "atlas" appears and the sections within it. | |
| Title | Jutia septentrionalis |
| Year | ca. 1595 |
| Description | Map shows the area from Northern Jutland with Thy, Mors, Limfjord, Salling, Himmerland, Djursland, Mols with the cities Alborg, Arhus, Horsens, Viborg, Lemvig, Island Samso and Tuno By. With a beautiful scrollwork cartouche. Denmark officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country and a sovereign state. The southernmost of the Scandinavian nations, it is south-west of Sweden and south of Norway,and bordered to the south by Germany. The tribal Danes came from the east Danish islands (Zealand) and Scania and spoke an early form of North Germanic. Historians believe that before their arrival, most of Jutland and the nearest islands were settled by tribal Jutes. |
| Place of Publication | Duisburg |
| Dimensions (cm) | 28,5 x 39 |
| Condition | Restoration at centerfold, lower missing part replaced |
| Coloring | original colored |
| Technique | Copper print |
Reproduction:
45.00 €
( A reproduction can be ordered individually on request. )