Re: [MapHist] Re: The impossible map from L’Histoire d’Angleterre

2011-09-29 Thread Terry Deveau
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + The reason that the BNF say that it dates to 1713 , *or later*, is because it portrays British possession of Acadia following the T

Re: [MapHist] Re: The impossible map from L’Histoire d’Angleterre

2011-09-29 Thread Joel Kovarsky
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Please forgive this, which was intended as a private remark--I forgot to change the email address (as usual). Joel On

Re: [MapHist] Re: The impossible map from L’Histoire d’Angleterre

2011-09-29 Thread Joel Kovarsky
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + On 9/29/2011 9:56 PM, Daniel Strebe wrote: Please, does anyone curate a collection that houses this map in situ? I am sure they

[MapHist] Re: The impossible map from L’Histoire d’Angleterre

2011-09-29 Thread Daniel Strebe
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Joel, Thank you greatly for finding this. I did not stumble onto it myself because BnF expanded “&” into “et”. Certainly it is th

[MapHist] Re: The impossible map from L’Histoire d’Angleterre

2011-09-29 Thread Daniel Strebe
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Vladimiro: Thanks for the comments. Normally I would not be (too) surprised to find a map projection used earlier than it was kno

[MapHist] Oxford: SCOLMA Conference - Call for Papers

2011-09-29 Thread Nick Millea
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear All, Apologies for cross-posting. Potentially of interest With best wishes, Nick __

Re: [MapHist] The impossible map from L’Histoire d’Angleterre

2011-09-29 Thread Joel Kovarsky
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + I was able to get a better look at the upper right margin of the Gallica image, which indicates Tome XII, pag. 1. Maybe someone at

Re: [MapHist] The impossible map from L’Histoire d’Angleterre

2011-09-29 Thread Joel Kovarsky
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + To confuse matters further, WorldCat (via FirstSearch) has two entries for the map, dated 1800 (likely an error?--seems to have pag

Re: [MapHist] The impossible map from L’Histoire d’Angleterre

2011-09-29 Thread Vladimiro Valerio
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Daniel and all, just one short, brief, remark. Before Gaspard Monge published his fundamental treatise Géometrie Descriptive in 17