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David and others perhaps interested, the Buache family seemed to be
enamored with that style. One example is J. N. Buache's 1776 "Carte de
Comparaison" showing three earlier mapmakers attempts at the relationship
between Asia and North America. I wrote an article about in the Map Collector
titled "a Most Curious Map." The point of the map was an attempt to show Didier
Robert du Vaugondy dead wrong in his concept, just a parting shot in the feud
between those two great cartographic families.
Bill
Bill Warren
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Subject: [MapHist] Humboldt Map of False Positions
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Dear MapHisters,
I recently came across on the David Rumsey site Alexander von Humboldt's Carte
de Fausses Positions de Mexico, Acapulco, Veracruz et du Pic d'Orizaba
(http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/ebguwk), which appeared in his 1811
atlas of New Spain. This is the earliest example I have seen of a map that
attempts to display the errors in previous maps. Does anyone know of earlier
examples, or is Humboldt's map a "first?"
David Allen
Encinitas, CA
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