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Original fileGeografische Karte von Europa
The image is a rectangular map projection centered on Europe, rendered in simple line engraving. It features geographical labels in Latin, with the landmasses distinguished from the hatched water bodies. A prominent diagonal line represents a degree scale running from 30 to 80 degrees, superimposed over the ocean and northern territories.
This map is a plate from Robert Fludd's 'Utriusque Cosmi Maioris Scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica atque Technica Historia', a cornerstone text of the Rosicrucian movement and early modern occult philosophy. It illustrates the macrocosmic interest in geography and the physical structure of the world characteristic of 17th-century hermetic inquiry.
EUROPA. Americæ pars Estotilandia Groenlandia Islandia Hybernia Scotia Anglia Gallia Hispania Africa pars Muscovia Tartaria Germania Hungaria Mare maior Natolia Syria Asia pars 30 40 50 60 70 80
Translation
Europe. Part of America, Estotiland (fictional region), Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Spain, Part of Africa, Muscovy, Tartary, Germany, Hungary, Black Sea, Anatolia, Syria, Part of Asia.
Robert Fludd
This map was published in Fludd's encyclopedic work 'Utriusque Cosmi', which explores the connection between the macrocosm and microcosm.
Object
engraving
laid paper
Baroque
German
map
Digital Source
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
800 × 645 px
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