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Re: Time and Longitude by Jupiter's moons
From: Robert H. van Gent
Date: 2024 Nov 29, 07:07 -0800
From: Robert H. van Gent
Date: 2024 Nov 29, 07:07 -0800
More information on Cassini's 1696 map can be found here:
- Lloyd Arnold Brown, Jean Domenique Cassini and his World Map of 1696 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1941), online here https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106000721875
- Rodney W. Shirley, The Mapping of the World: Early Printed World Maps, 1472-1700 , Nr. 579 [pp. 573-575], online here https://archive.org/details/mappingofworldea0000shir
As both sources mention, Dutch publishers were quick to adapt Cassini's map in their own products.
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Rob van Gent
