"a chart of the world on mercator's projection" (c. 1599), sometimes known as the wright–molyneux map. Based on edward wright's projection of a globe engraved by english globe-maker emery molyneux in 1592, it was the first map to use wright's improvements on mercator's projection and was regarded as 16th-century cartographic landmark. Unlike many contemporary maps and charts that represented the often fantastic speculations of their makers, wright's map has a minimum of detail and leaves areas blank wherever geographic information was lacking. These undefined areas are especially evident along wright's coastlines. Wright's map is also one of the earliest maps to use the name "virginia". The map is alluded to in shakespeare's twelfth night, when maria says teasingly of malvolio: "he does smile his face into more lynes, than is in the new mappe, with the augmentation of the indies. " see novus orbis: images of the new world, part 3. Lewis & clark: the maps of exploration 1507–1814, albert h. And shirley small special collections library, university of virginia (2008-01-31). Retrieved on 2008-02-07. Note: the 1599 version of this map was enlarged by william kip in 1610 and heavily updated by joseph moxon in 1655 (published in 1657), incorporating the wealth of discoveries stemming from the many voyages of discovery from 1599 to 1655. The 1657 wright-moxon map is often confused with the 1599 wright-molyneux map. Date: circa 1599, published 1600.
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