Niespójność komentarzy z realiami XVI–XVIII-wiecznej kartografii w polskim wydaniu książki Kevina J. Browna Dawne mapy. Podróż w przeszłość
Discrepancy between Commentary and Facts in the 16th–18th-Century Cartography in the Polish Edition of Kevin J. Brown’s A Journey Back in Time Through Maps

Summary/Abstract: Discrepancy between Commentary and Facts in the 16th–18th-Century Cartography in the Polish Edition of Kevin J. Brown’s A Journey Back in Time Through Maps. Kevin J. Brown, Dawne mapy. Podróż w przeszłość, tłum. Michał Zagrodzki, Wydawnictwo Arkady, Warszawa 2019, ss. 207, 73 reprodukcje dawnych mapThe article highlights the most serious factual mistakes and errors in the descriptions of the reproduced maps in the Polish edition of Kevin J. Brown’s A Journey Back in Time Through Maps (Dawne mapy. Podróż w przeszłość, transl. M. Zagrodzki, Warszawa 2019). The author explains in detail the history of creation and facts related to the 16th–18th-century maps such as: Jean Janvier’s Mappe-monde, ou description du globe terrestre (1762), Didier Robert de Vaugondy’s Mappemonde ou description du Globe terrestre (1783), Philippe Buache’s Mappemonde à l’usage de l’instruction (1808), Jodocus Hondius’s Designatio orbis Christiani (1621), Athanasius Kircher’s Tabula geographico-hydrographica (1665), or Johann Baptista Homann’s Accurata Utopiae tabula (after 1724). The evolution of representing the California Peninsula on manuscript and printed maps up to the mid-18th century is briefly discussed.

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