The Discovery of the Northmen in America with special relation to their early cartographical Representation.
It was doubtless through his connection with the cartographical establishment of Homann that he felt induced to undertake the construction of his globes, examples of which exist dated 1728.
The evolution of a knowledge of the Great Lakes region and its cartographical representation should prove to be a topic of absorbing interest.
As a result of the labors of this great Northern Expedition, the northern coast of the Old World got substantially the same cartographical outline that it now has.
He clung to all of his brother's conjectures about Gamaland, Kompagniland, and Staatenland as well as Jeco, although they were based on very unreliable accounts and the cartographicaldistortions of several generations.
In these cartographical aids Spangberg found only errors and confusion, and he got about the same kind of assistance from his real predecessors in practical exploration.
Perhaps no cartographical argument has been so effective as that of Major in comparing modern charts with the map of Herrera, in which the latter lays Guanahani down.
The well-known map of Juan de la Cosa posts us best on the cartographical results of these same voyages up to the summer of 1500.
The obvious difficulty in the cartographical problem for the Portuguese was, as has been said, to make it appear that they were not disregarding the agreement at Tordesillas while they were securing a region for sovereignty.
It is not necessary to trace the cartographical history of Greenland to a later day.
It is the "Gran Capitano" of Ramusio who credits the Bretons with these early visits at the north, though we get no positive cartographical record of such visits till 1520, in a map which is given by Kunstmann in his Atlas.
This map of Cabot was the last of the principal cartographical monuments made north of the Alps in this early half of the sixteenth century.
To Denys there has been ascribed a mysterious chart of the Gulf of St. Lawrence; but if the copy which is preserved represents it, there can be no hesitation in discarding it as a much later cartographical record.
For this establishment, now known as the Edinburgh Geographical Institute, Bartholomew built up a reputation unsurpassed in Great Britain for the production of the finestcartographical work.
His father had a cartographical establishment there and he was educated in the work.
Gomez went as far north as the entrance of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and corrected some cartographicalnotions respecting those waters.
Kohl printed a plan for a Cartographical Depot, in connection with the Government.
The Editor has traced the cartographical history of the Western Sea in a Note following this chapter.
He also describes various universal maps and cards of his day, noting their cartographical peculiarities, like those of Vopellio (p.
An account of Agnese’s cartographical labors is given in another volume.
Cartographical representation was by him radically improved by the introduction of correct projections, with converging meridians, of which a commencement had already been made by Hipparchus.
They can, however, hardly be described as maps, while in age they are surpassed by several cartographical clay tablets discovered in Babylonia.
The cartographical establishment founded by him in that year was carried on after his death in 1667 by his sons, his son-in-law, P.
Clavus's second map, which seems to have been drawn later than that just mentioned, has on the other hand had considerable influence on the cartographical representation of the northern regions through a period of two centuries.
On the influence of these men on the cartographical representation of the North, see in particular J.
The latter remained for a long time the usual one in all editions of Ptolemy, in other cartographical works and on many globes.
This manuscript gives striking evidence of his cartographical ability.
Whatever the truth concerning the origin of these charts, that determination became a starting point for a most important evolution in cartographical history of the world.
A reference to his general cartographical work more detailed than the above cannot here find place.
Although but few of his cartographicalproductions are known, there is to be found in the survivals abundant evidence of his marked ability.
In the rich cartographical collection of Prince Liechtenstein there may be found, in addition to the globe gores referred to above, an interesting globe, usually referred to as the mounted Hauslab globe.
It is, indeed, the oldest known cartographical monument on which the name America is given both to the north and the south continental areas.
Dudley and his cartographical labors are also brought under notice in chap.
By the Editor—The cartographical history of the Atlantic Ocean is, even down to our own day, an odd mixture of uncertain fact and positive fable.
Some of the features of the map had likewise become pretty constant in the attendant cartographical records.
THE cartographical history of the Pacific coast of North America is one of shadowy and unstable surmise long continued.
This is the only cartographicalresult of the French occupation.
The circumstantial story of Bartolemé de Fonte, whose exploits are placed in 1640, at one time commanded a certain degree of confidence, and made strange work with the cartographical ideas of the upper part of the Pacific coast.
It is without date, and can only be fixed in the chain of cartographical ideas by its internal evidence.
At the beginning of the fourteenth century, as we have seen, there is no cartographical evidence of knowledge extending far beyond the Straits of Gibraltar--either down the mainland shore or among the Islands in the Ocean.
It is in continuation of this series, which includes others not here mentioned, that the following enumeration is offered of the cartographical results which controlled and developed the maps of the eighteenth century.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cartographical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
