Atlas contractus orbis terrarum praecipuas ac novissimas complectens tabulas.
Atlas contractus orbis terrarum praecipuas ac novissimas complectens tabulas.
Latin
1666
91 pages
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The work 'Atlas contractus orbis terrarum' by Nicolaus Visscher is a 17th-century cartographic atlas. Such works consist primarily of maps with titles and labels in Latin, rather than a continuous prose text that would be 'translated' in the traditional sense. Extensive searches across multiple scholarly and library catalogs yielded no evidence of any English translation of this atlas. References to the work in English-language sources are limited to cartobibliographical descriptions or citations, not translations of the work itself.
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Nicolaus Visscher’s Atlas contractus transforms the 17th-century world into a precise, visual ledger of power. Readers will find how merchants, kings, and cartographers mapped the edges of the known world to secure their influence.
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