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Philipp Eckebrecht – Map of the World (1630)
Title: Noua orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata meridiano tabb. Rudolphi astronomicarum /
Contributor Names: Eckebrecht, Philipp, 1594-1667. Walch, J. P. (Johann Philipp). Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630.
Created / Published: [Nuremberg] : Philippus Eckebrecht, 1630.
Medium: 1 map ; on sheet 44 x 72 cm.
Summary: Earth. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Johannes Kepler’s Tabvlae Rudolphinae. Ulm : Johannes Saur, 1627-30. Prime meridian based on the astronomer Tycho Brahe’s observatory in Denmark. Map drawn in three parts (left to right): 1 half-hemisphere (15 cm. radius), 1 hemisphere (29 cm. in diameter), and 1 half-hemisphere (15 cm. radius).
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