COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Halley, Edmund
Author:
Mountaine, William
Author:
Dobson, James
Date:
1744
Short Title:
(Center Sheet) A Correct Chart of the Terraqueous Globe, According to Mercator’s, or more properly Wright’s Projection; On which are describ’d Lines, shewing the Variation of the Magnetic Needle
Publisher:
Mount and Page,
Publisher Location:
London
Type:
Separate Map
Obj Height cm:
52
Obj Width cm:
60
Scale 1:
33,000,000
World Area:
World
Subject:
Navigation
Subject:
Data Visualization
Full Title:
(Center Sheet) A Correct Chart of the Terraqueous Globe, According to Mercator’s, or more properly Wright’s Projection; On which are describ’d Lines, shewing the Variation of the Magnetic Needle, according to observations made about the Year 1744. … [second title] Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Nautica, Celeberrimo Viro, Edmd. Halley. LLD. Anno 1700. Constructa: Indice Variationes Magneticas denotatente ad Observationibus circiter annu. 1744 habitas, renovata, Gulielmo Mountaine, et Jacobo Dobson.
List No:
10807.002
Series No:
2
Publication Author:
Halley, Edmund
Publication Author:
Mountaine, William
Publication Author:
Dobson, James
Pub Date:
1744
Pub Title:
A Correct Chart of the Terraqueous Globe, According to Mercator’s, or more properly Wright’s Projection; On which are describ’d Lines, shewing the Variation of the Magnetic Needle, according to observations made about the Year 1744. … [second title] Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Nautica, Celeberrimo Viro, Edmd. Halley. LLD. Anno 1700. Constructa: Indice Variationes Magneticas denotatente ad Observationibus circiter annu. 1744 habitas, renovata, Gulielmo Mountaine, et Jacobo Dobson.
Pub Reference:
COPAC records only the BL example, Maps C.11.c.29.(2.): edge bound into a collection of different printings of the various Halley world maps, presented by William Mountaine, with manuscript inscription on a front free end-paper: “Presented by Mr. Wm. Mountayne April 14 1758”. Worldcat adds Bibliothèque nationale de France, Departement des Cartes et plans, GE SH 18 PF 1 DIV 0 P 8/1 (wrongly described as manuscript); also New York Public Library, Map Div. 97-6493 [LHS 1036], from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection. Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle Library.
Pub Note:
This chart is printed from the second set of printing plates (as described under no. 2), here with the engraving completed, with the title re-engraved as above, inserting the names of the two editors, William Mountaine and James Dobson, and the lines of compass variation engraved across the face of the chart. It seems highly likely that the plates were only completed at this time, as Mount and Page made a newspaper appeal in the Daily Advertiser (issue 4598) for 17th September 1745 for assistance in updating (but actually completing?) the chart, in that the proof state lacked the lines of magnetic variation: “The celebrated Mercator’s Chart of all the oceans and seas in the terraqueous globe, with the curves inscrib’d to shew the variation of the magnetical needles, constructed by the late accurate and judicious navigator Dr. Edmund Halley in the Year 1700, being by Time much varied, The Proprietors have determin’d to publish a new one, which is in great forwardness: It is therefore desir’d of any Gentleman who has made any Observations of the said Variation, either by Sea or Land, to communicate the same to Mess. Mount and Page, on Tower-Hill.” The appeal was answered by William Mountaine (ca. 1700-1779) and James Dodson (ca. 1710-1757). Mountaine was a mathematician and teacher of navigation. Dodson was also a mathematician, from 1755 master of the Royal Mathematical School, Christ’s Hospital. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755, apparently partly through the good offices of his friend the then President, George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, a connection that might explain the presence of these two Halley maps in the Shirburn House collections. Their work was completed fairly quickly, with the completed map advertised for sale in the General Advertiser (issue 3584) for 22nd April 1746, as “This Day is published ...” (Maggs Bros., 2021)
Pub List No:
10807.000
Pub Type:
Separate Map
Pub Height cm:
52
Pub Width cm:
146
Image No:
10807002.jp2
Authors:
Halley, Edmund; Mountaine, William ; Dobson, James
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(Center Sheet) A Correct Chart of the Terraqueous Globe, According to Mercator’s, or more ...
