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Map Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe : laid down from the best observations and newest discoveries particularly those lately made in the south seas by Anson, Byron, Wallis, Bouganville, Cook, and other celebrated circumnavigators, illustrated with a variety of useful projections and representations of the heavenly bodies the most approved astronomical and geographical definitions tables, and problems with an easy and familiar explanation of the most curious and interesting phoenomena in the universal system.

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Title

  • Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe : laid down from the best observations and newest discoveries particularly those lately made in the south seas by Anson, Byron, Wallis, Bouganville, Cook, and other celebrated circumnavigators, illustrated with a variety of useful projections and representations of the heavenly bodies the most approved astronomical and geographical definitions tables, and problems with an easy and familiar explanation of the most curious and interesting phoenomena in the universal system.

Names

  • Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for the proprietor Carington Bowles, no. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, [1780?]

Contents

  • Western hemisphere of the world, the New World or North and South America -- Eastern hemisphere of the world, the Old World or Europe, Asia and Africa.

Headings

  • -  World maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  Voyages around the world--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  Earth

Notes

  • -  Shows various expedition routes.
  • -  Relief shown pictorially.
  • -  Includes text and col. ill.
  • -  Ancillary maps: Solar system -- Northern hemisphere -- Southern hemisphere -- Astronomical latitude and longitude analemma -- Universal scale of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, secants, & c. & c. -- Chart of the world according to Mercator's projection -- Selenography or a map of the moon -- Vicissitude of seasons explained -- Analemma.
  • -  Sectioned into 4 pieces, mounted on cloth.
  • -  LC copy imperfect: Margin trimmed, minor losses along top.

Medium

  • 1 map : hand col. ; 2 hemispheres each 59 cm. in diam., on sheet 106 x 130 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3200 1780 .B6

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2006627255

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Bowles, Carington. Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe: laid down from the best observations and newest discoveries particularly those lately made in the south seas by Anson, Byron, Wallis, Bouganville, Cook, and other celebrated circumnavigators, illustrated with a variety of useful projections and representations of the heavenly bodies the most approved astronomical and geographical definitions tables, and problems with an easy and familiar explanation of the most curious and interesting phoenomena in the universal system. [London: Printed for the proprietor Carington Bowles, no. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, ?, 1780] Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2006627255/.

APA citation style:

Bowles, C. (1780) Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe: laid down from the best observations and newest discoveries particularly those lately made in the south seas by Anson, Byron, Wallis, Bouganville, Cook, and other celebrated circumnavigators, illustrated with a variety of useful projections and representations of the heavenly bodies the most approved astronomical and geographical definitions tables, and problems with an easy and familiar explanation of the most curious and interesting phoenomena in the universal system. [London: Printed for the proprietor Carington Bowles, no. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, ?] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2006627255/.

MLA citation style:

Bowles, Carington. Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe: laid down from the best observations and newest discoveries particularly those lately made in the south seas by Anson, Byron, Wallis, Bouganville, Cook, and other celebrated circumnavigators, illustrated with a variety of useful projections and representations of the heavenly bodies the most approved astronomical and geographical definitions tables, and problems with an easy and familiar explanation of the most curious and interesting phoenomena in the universal system. [London: Printed for the proprietor Carington Bowles, no. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, ?, 1780] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2006627255/>.