File:A New Map of Denmark and Sweden - no-nb krt 00497.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(3,746 × 4,489 pixels, file size: 5.59 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Description
English: The western half of A New Map of Denmark and Sweden According to ye Newest and most Exact Observations by H: Moll Geographer. To His Excellency John Lord Bishop of Bristol, Ld. Privy Seal and Her Majesty's first Plenipotentiary at the Treaty of Utrecht This Map is Humbly Dedicated by your Excellency's most humble Servant, H: Moll Geographer. Note that Greenland has no Inhabitans, but is every Year visited by many Ships from Holland, Hamburg &c. who fish in these Seas and on the Coast for Whale. The Northern Part of Norway, Lapland, and Greenland. The Longitudes of ye North Cape & of Archangel being not determin'd by any Caelestial Observations, the Sea Charts & Land Maps differ much. This Draught is taken from J. Peterson, who for many years used these Seas as a Pilot. NB. The double Line from Upsal to Torne shews ye Rout King Charles ye XI. and his Mathematicians took Anno 1694 in making their Observations, which are carefully inserted here with many other Remarks left to ye Curious to observe.
Norsk bokmål: Kart fra Nasjonalbibliotekets kartsamling. Kartet er gitt ut i () og viser .
Date between 1694 and 1732
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1694-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1732-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source
institution QS:P195,Q924551
Author Herman Moll
Other versions See categories below

Licensing

[edit]
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current16:33, 2 October 2014Thumbnail for version as of 16:33, 2 October 20143,746 × 4,489 (5.59 MB)Anne-Sophie Ofrim (talk | contribs)Cropped 8 % horizontally and 5 % vertically using CropTool with lossless mode.
11:23, 5 September 2014Thumbnail for version as of 11:23, 5 September 20144,074 × 4,739 (6.47 MB)Nasjonalbiblioteket-bot (talk | contribs)From the Norwegian National Library: Moll -

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:A_New_Map_of_Denmark_and_Sweden_-_no-nb_krt_00497.jpg&oldid=776447551"