Creator Thornton Robert (1641-1708)

Date 1707

World map from Thornton's Sea Atlas, containing an hydrographical description of the sea-coasts of most of the known parts of the world: 'Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) charts describing the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, the bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports in most of the known parts of the world : with the true course and distances from one place to anot., gathered from the latest discoveries that hath been made, by divers[e], able and experienced navigators of our English nation, accommodated with an hidrographical (sic) description of the whole world &c.'.Thornton incorporated the observations of fellow Englishment William Dampier (1652-1715) and Edmond Halley (1656-1742) of comet fame. The east coast of New Holland is shown conjectured..Original title: Nova & Accuratissima totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Nautica Variationum Magneticarum Index Juxta Observationes Anno 1700)

Source: New York Public Libary