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ECKEBRECHT, Philip (1594-1667). Nova Orbis Terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata meridiano Tabb. Rudolphi Astronomicarum. Nuremberg: 1630 [but after 1658].
Engraved map of the world in a bifurcated double-hemisphere form (390 x 690mm), by J.P. Walch after Philip Eckebrecht, the double-hemisphere framed by a double-headed eagle with the dedication to the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold, titled along upper margin.
A rare and extraordinary world map, drawn up by the Nuremberg cartographer Philip Eckebrecht at the request of his friend Johann Kepler, presumably to be used in future edition of the Rudolphine Astronomical Tables, used for calculating longitude. The first edition of the tables was published in 1627, and the map is occasionally found inserted in some copies. This example shows old fold marks indicating that it had also been bound into a copy. The dating after 1658 is derived from the dedication to Leopold I, who became Holy Roman Emperor in that year.
The map was once considered to be the first to show the Dutch explorations in Australia, but the later dating of this map now negates this idea. It is possible that an earlier issue of this map exists without the dedication to Leopold I, but the plate does not look unduly altered. It seems likely that this map was planned by Kepler for inclusion in a future edition of the tables, but unfortunately on his death in 1630, the copper plate was probably left unfinished or indeed unpaid, and was probably retained by his executors or Walch in an unfinished state, and was subsequently completed some 28 years later. Shirley Mapping of the World 335; Schilder Australia Unveiled p.68.
Engraved map of the world in a bifurcated double-hemisphere form (390 x 690mm), by J.P. Walch after Philip Eckebrecht, the double-hemisphere framed by a double-headed eagle with the dedication to the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold, titled along upper margin.
A rare and extraordinary world map, drawn up by the Nuremberg cartographer Philip Eckebrecht at the request of his friend Johann Kepler, presumably to be used in future edition of the Rudolphine Astronomical Tables, used for calculating longitude. The first edition of the tables was published in 1627, and the map is occasionally found inserted in some copies. This example shows old fold marks indicating that it had also been bound into a copy. The dating after 1658 is derived from the dedication to Leopold I, who became Holy Roman Emperor in that year.
The map was once considered to be the first to show the Dutch explorations in Australia, but the later dating of this map now negates this idea. It is possible that an earlier issue of this map exists without the dedication to Leopold I, but the plate does not look unduly altered. It seems likely that this map was planned by Kepler for inclusion in a future edition of the tables, but unfortunately on his death in 1630, the copper plate was probably left unfinished or indeed unpaid, and was probably retained by his executors or Walch in an unfinished state, and was subsequently completed some 28 years later. Shirley Mapping of the World 335; Schilder Australia Unveiled p.68.
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