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On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Lutz Walter
<[email protected]> wrote:

> but the fact that a western model for the world map
> was available to the compilers well before the forced opening of the country
> through the Perry expedition is remarkable. I wonder whether any reader of
> the list could help to identify that model.

I'm not an expert on maps, but on voyages of discovery. As such I will
not specify the exact model, but I will comment on its time frame. I
notice in the shape of Australia that it does include information from
the Thijssen voyage in 1633, but not from the first Tasman voyage in
1642-1643. That places it in the middle of the 17th century, probably
the 1640s or 1650s.


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AndrĂ© Engels, [email protected]
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