He summoned thither astronomers and cartographers and skilled seamen, while he caused stouter and larger vessels to be built for the express purpose of exploration.
Peter Chaplin, thecartographers Luskin and Patiloff, the mates, Richard Engel and George Morison, Dr.
Blaew (1635), California is represented as a peninsula; but on the maps of latercartographers as W.
His Ania is no doubt the present Anam, but the Dutch cartographers thought that this land was in Northeast Asia, and called the strait that was said to separate the continents the Strait of Anian.
The Russian cartographers made use of his chart, but they did not understand how to fit judiciously his incomplete coast-lines to those already known, or to distinguish right from wrong.
But speaking generally, the Terra Australis of the oldcartographers was a gigantic antipodean imposture, a mere piece of map-makers' furniture, put in to fill up the gaping space at the south end of the globe.
The cartographers were trying all sorts of experiments in representing the converging meridians on a plane surface, so as not to distort the geography, and in order to afford some manifest method for the guidance of ships.
We need now to turn from these records of the voyagers to see what impression their discoveries had been making upon the cartographers and geographers of Europe.
Early in the eighteenth century, even the bestcartographers ran wild in their delineations of the Pacific coast.
Did the cartographers of that time have anything more than conjecture by which to run such a coast line?
It was one of the results of Frobisher's voyages that they served to implant in the minds of the cartographers of the northern waters the notions of the Zeni geography, and aided to give those notions a new lease of favor.
It seems probable that various earlycartographers were misled by the traditional lore of “salineros”, or salt-making Indians, in combination with the unusual designation of these islands.
This lore found measurable expression in maps prepared in Europe, even by thosecartographers who purposely or otherwise ignored the surveys of Ulloa and Alarcon.
Naturally, in view of the slow and imperfect diffusion of knowledge characteristic of early times, cartographers were dilatory in introducing the observations of Kino and Escalante.
The placing of Lake Champlain within a short distance of Casco Bay was another error that the later Dutch cartographers adopted in one form or another.
New France is connected with Florida or is an island, the maps made shortly after Aillon’s voyage[797] show that the cartographers had decided the matter in their minds.
Some of the Dutch cartographers were not so inalert.
It is not easy to discriminate among various composite atlases of this period, the chief cartographers being made to contribute to various imprints.
It was extraordinary to realize that here about the eleventh degree we were on such a big river, utterly unknown to the cartographers and not indicated by even a hint on any map.
The most distinguished French cartographers of the early part of the eighteenth century were the father and son, Claude and Guillaume Delisle.
Similar confusion prevailed amongst the early cartographers as to the position which they should assign to the Solomon Islands.
No reasonable fault can be found with the marine surveyors of this period, but the scientific cartographers allowed themselves too frequently to be influenced by Ptolemaic traditions.
Wagner, to the inexperience of the cartographers who first combined the charts of the separate basins of the Mediterranean so as to produce a chart of the whole.
Waldseemueller was one of the most distinguished cartographers of his day.
The number of cartographers throughout Europe was considerable, and we confine ourselves to mentioning a few leading men.
In adopting a scale for their maps, cartographers will do well to choose a multiple of 1000 if possible, for such a scale can claim to be international, while in planning an atlas they ought to avoid a needless multiplicity of scales.
At first cartographers chose their colours rather arbitrarily.
We are indebted to Strabo for nearly all we know about Greek cartographers anterior to Ptolemy, for none of their maps has been preserved.
He represented the continent of Asia separated from the continent of America by a narrow sea, an idea which increased in favor with geographers and cartographers long before actual discovery proved this to be a fact.
The cartographers sometimes scattered names, seemingly for little purpose but to fill up spaces.
It is a curious fact that the true position and form of South America were familiar to cartographers long before there was any exact knowledge of the northern half of the continent.
When Bering started on his expedition he was accompanied by two cartographers (Bergh, First Voy.
It is addressed only toward certain points in Lauridsen's work, and contains valuable corrections of certain errors therein, and information in regard to the work of Strahlenberg and the other earlycartographers of Eastern Siberia.
The cartographers of the middle ages, with incredible ignorance, misplaced in general every locality.
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