MAKE A MEME View Large Image Anville Map of the Ancient World - Geographicus - AncientWorld-anville-1794.jpg A large and dramatic composite 1794 map of the world as it was known to the ancients by J B B D'Anville Covers all of Europe Asia Minor Arabia and India much of ...
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Keywords: 1794 Anville Map of the Ancient World - Geographicus - AncientWorld-anville-1794.jpg A large and dramatic composite 1794 map of the world as it was known to the ancients by J B B D'Anville Covers all of Europe Asia Minor Arabia and India much of Northern Africa and parts of Southeast Asia D'Anville compiled this map from various sources including Ptolemy Herodotus Thucydides and others In Africa the author notes various cities from Ptolemy's Geographica including Rapta Axum Garama and others Includes the Mountains of the Moon Lakes of the Nile and other conjectural destinations Far in the south a note reads Aethiopes Anthropophagi which essentially translates to African Cannibals In the Far East a number of classical locals are noted including the island of Taprobana Celon and the empires of Southeast Asia Details mountains rivers cities roadways and lakes with political divisions highlighted in outline color Title cartouche appears in a baroque frame in the upper left quadrant Cartouche is flanked on either side by malignant appearing figure with a telescope and a studious scholar reading a book Includes eight distance scales bottom left referencing various measurement systems common in antiquity Text in Latin and English Drawn by J B B D'Anville in 1762 and published in 1794 by Laurie and Whittle London dated 1763 published 1794 Size in 30 21 object history credit line accession number AncientWorld-anville-1794 D'Anville J B B <i>Complete Body of Ancient Geography</i> Laurie and Whittle London 1795 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps of the world before Columbus 1763 maps Maps in Latin
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