Caption: map of the world. This is a facsimile of the map sometimes, but rarely, found in copies of the second edition of the principall navigations; it is now believed to be the map alluded to by shakespeare in twelfth night, act iii, scene 2. In the passage 'he does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the indies. ' it is also held to be the first map engraved in england upon the projection called mercator's, but which was really the work of edward wright, mathematician and hydrographer, and author of certaine errors in navigation, 1599. University of adelaide scan of map. Date: 1600.
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