title: 1770 Bonne Map of Southern India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), the Maldives, and the Indian Ocean Geographicus - IndiaSouth-bonne-1770

artist: Rigobert Bonne

date: 1770 (undated)

dimensions: Size unit=in width=16.5 height=11.75

source: Lattre, Jean, <i>Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur Toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre</i>, c. 1775. Geographicus-source

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description: A beautiful example of Rigobert Bonne's 1770 decorative map of southern India. Covers both the Malabar and Coromandel coasts as well as the Maldives, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the Andaman Islands, and parts of Sumatra and Southeast Asia. Rhumb lines throughout. Arrows in the indian Ocean show the direction of prevailing winds during the dry season and the monsoon season. This important indian Ocean wind system, which blew one way for half the year, and the opposite for the other half, created a critical trade artery from antiquity to pre-modern times. Drawn by R. Bonne in 1770 for issue as plate no. B 26 in Jean Lattre's 1776 issue of the Atlas Moderne .

title: 1658 Jansson Map of the Indian Ocean (Erythrean Sea) in Antiquity Geographicus - ErythraeanSea-jansson-1658

artist: Jan Janssonius

date: 1658 (undated)

dimensions: Size unit=in width=19 height=16

source: Jansson, J., <i>Novus Atlas, Sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: In quo Orbis Antiquus, Seu Geographia Vetus, Sacra & Profana exhibetur</i>, Volume 6, 1658. Geographicus-source

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description: An unusual and attractive 1658 map of the indian Ocean, or Erythraean Sea, as it was in antiquity. Composed by Jan Jansson after a similar 1597 map published by A. Ortelius in his Parergon . Covers from Egypt and the Nile valley eastward past Arabia and India, to Southeast Asia and Java. Cartographically, India, Arabia, and Africa roughly correspond to the conventions of the period. Southeast Asia is less recognizable, but the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java are clearly noted. Most of the place names used throughout are derived from Ptolemy, who himself based his description of the region heavily on records from Alexander the Great's conquests. Two smaller maps in the upper left and right quadrants are of exceptional interest. The upper left chart shows northwestern Africa and is titled Annonis Periplus. This is a reference to the legendary expeditions of the Carthaginian King Hanno, said to have been the first to access the indian Ocean by sailing around the southern tip of Africa. Incidentally, en route, he is also said to have been the first to tame a lion. The upper right chart shows the northern polar regions as they were perceived at the time. A landmass covering the polar ice cap is indentified as Hyperborea. To the left of this, roughly where North America rests today, the island of Atlantis appears; while Scythia, Europe (Thule) and Asia are on the right. Greenland and possibly Iceland appear at the bottom. This map is intended to point out the possibility of a Northeast Passage to Asia, which was at the time being actively sought after by Dutch, English, and Russian navigators. Both smaller maps, the primary title area at top center, and an Latin explanation for the map at bottom center, are surrounded by baroque strapwork style borders. This remarkable map was published in volume six, the Orbis Antiquus , of Jan Jansson's Novus Atlas .

title: FMIB 48797 Map to illustrate the Geographical Distribution of the Land Mollusca of the East Indian Archipelago

artist: A. H. Cooke

date: 1895

current location: Institution:University of Washington London, England

source: en| Cite book

credit: Cooke, A. H .; Shipley, A. E .; Reed, F. R. C. (1895) Molluscs, Cambridge Natural History, v.3, London: Macmillan and Co.

description: map to illustrate the Geographical Distribution of the Land Mollusca of the East indian Archipelago

• Subject: Malay archipelago--Maps, Mollusks--Distribution--Maps
• Geographic Subject: Malay archipelago
• Tag: Mollusks