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Map Scientia terrarum et coelorum : or, the heavens and earth astronomically and geographically delineated and display'd : containing the most curious & useful particulars in the solar starry & mundane systems, faithfully enumerated & delineated according to the latest discoveries Heavens and earth astronomically and geographically delineated and display'd

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Title

  • Scientia terrarum et coelorum : or, the heavens and earth astronomically and geographically delineated and display'd : containing the most curious & useful particulars in the solar starry & mundane systems, faithfully enumerated & delineated according to the latest discoveries

Other Title

  • Heavens and earth astronomically and geographically delineated and display'd

Names

  • Dunn, Samuel, -1794, cartographer
  • Kitchin, Thomas, 1719-1784,

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, no. 53 in Fleet Street, [1772]

Headings

  • -  Astronomy--Charts, diagrams, etc.--Early works to 1800
  • -  Earth (Planet)

Genre

  • World maps
  • Early maps

Notes

  • -  Relief shown by hachures.
  • -  "As the act directs 20th November 1772."
  • -  Includes extensive text, tables, and many small astronomical maps, as well as the larger maps and charts listed below.
  • -  Ancillary maps and diagrams: The solar system -- The Northern Hemisphere -- The Southern Hemisphere -- An astronomical latitude & longitude analemma -- An universal scale of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, secants, &c., &c. -- A chart of the world according to Mercator's projection with the rhumb lines -- Selenography of a map of the moon according to Father Riccoli -- The vicissitude of seasons explained -- The analemma.
  • -  Appears in Kitchin's General atlas, 1773.
  • -  LC copy sectioned in four and mounted on cloth.
  • -  Latin title only. All other text in English.

Medium

  • 1 map : hand colored ; 1 hemisphere 59 cm in diameter, on sheet 107 x 128 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3200 1772 .D8

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017585829

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Dunn, Samuel, -1794, Cartographer, and Thomas Kitchin. Scientia Terrarum Et Coelorum: Or, the Heavens and Earth Astronomically and Geographically Delineated and Display'd: Containing the Most Curious & Useful Particulars in the Solar Starry & Mundane Systems, Faithfully Enumerated & DelineatedAccording to the Latest Discoveries. [London: Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, no. 53 in Fleet Street, 1772] Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017585829/.

APA citation style:

Dunn, S. & Kitchin, T. (1772) Scientia Terrarum Et Coelorum: Or, the Heavens and Earth Astronomically and Geographically Delineated and Display'd: Containing the Most Curious & Useful Particulars in the Solar Starry & Mundane Systems, Faithfully Enumerated & DelineatedAccording to the Latest Discoveries. [London: Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, no. 53 in Fleet Street] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017585829/.

MLA citation style:

Dunn, Samuel, -1794, Cartographer, and Thomas Kitchin. Scientia Terrarum Et Coelorum: Or, the Heavens and Earth Astronomically and Geographically Delineated and Display'd: Containing the Most Curious & Useful Particulars in the Solar Starry & Mundane Systems, Faithfully Enumerated & DelineatedAccording to the Latest Discoveries. [London: Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, no. 53 in Fleet Street, 1772] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017585829/>.