Mapping our world
Subtitle: terra incognita to Australia
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Canberra, ACT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780642278098
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Cartography; Exhibitions; History; Early maps; Map collections; Discovery and exploration; Maps; Discoveries in geography; Bibliothèque nationale (France); National Library of Australia; Biblioteca nazionale marciana; British Library; Biblioteca apostolica vaticana
Description: The cover image, World Map by Fra Mauro c. 1450 is one of the most important and famous maps of all time. This monumental map of the world was created by the monk Fra Mauro in his monastery on the island of San Michele in the Venetian lagoon. Now the centrepiece of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in St Marc's Square in Venice, the map in its nearly 600-year history has never left Venice - until now. Renowned for its sheer size, over 2.3 metres square, and stunning colours, the map was made at a time of transition between the medieval world view and new knowledge uncovered by the great voyages of discovery. Brilliantly painted and illuminated on sheets of oxhide, the sphere of the Earth is surrounded by the sphere of the Ocean in the ancient way. Yet Fra Mauro included the latest information on exploration by Portuguese and Arab navigators. Commissioned by King Afonso V of Portugal, it is the last of the great medieval world maps to inspire navigators in the Age of Discovery to explore beyond the Indian Ocean.
Notes: "This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Mapping our world : Terra Incognita to Australia", on display at the National Library of Australia from 7 November 2013 until 10 March 2014"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: Principal partner's foreword / Andrew Smith; title: Foreword / Anne-Marie Schwirtlich; title: Mapping our World / Nat Williams; title: Terra Incognita To Australia / Martin Woods, Susannah Helman; title: The Early Printed Maps Collection of The National Library of Australia / Martin Woods; title: Part I; title: The Very First World Map? Late Babylonian map of the world; title: Tjapangati's Map; Jon Rhodes, The maps to Marruwa; title: Collaborations; Four maps from the Daisy Bates Collection; title: Stories From The Night Sky; Artist unknown, The Milky Way; Gulbidja Bara, The Magellanic Clouds; title: We Are All Navigators; Michael Nelson Jakamarra, Five Dreamings; title: The Antipodes; Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio; title: The Habitable World; Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia; title: Part II; title: The T-O Map; St Isidore of Seville, The Etymologies; title: Updating The Roman World; Anglo-Saxon world map; title: The World In Miniature; Psalter world map; title: A Beatus Map; Beatus de Liébana, Commentary on the Apocalypse; title: From Star-Taker To Sextant; ibn Ahmad Khalaf, Astrolabe; title: Squeezing An Encyclopaedia Into A Map; Ramsey Abbey Higden map; title: Part III; title: Rediscovering Ptolemy; Claudius Ptolemy, Cosmographia; title: The Riddle Of Cattigara; Lorenz Fries, Map of Asia beyond the Ganges; title: Heavenly Woodcuts; Hartmann Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle; title: Qui Comenza El Mar Scuro: Here Begins The Dark Sea; Fra Mauro, Map of the world; title: A Benedictine Monk's World View; Andreas Walsperger, World map; title: A Catalan Merchant And His Markets; Petrus Roselli, Sea chart of the Mediterranean; title: The Southern Cross Revealed; Andrea Corsali, Letter to Giuliano de Medici; C. Julius Hyginus, Poetica Astronomica; title: A Matter Of Perspective; Johannes Honter, The Southern Constellations; title: New Constellations; Willem Jansz. Blaeu, Celestial globe; title: Measuring The Southern Skies; Johann Bayer, Uranometria; title: Spheres Of Influence; Diogo Ribeiro, Planisphere; title: Far From Lisbon; Diogo Homem, Chart of the Pacific Ocean and Chart of the North Indian Ocean, China Sea and part of the Pacific Ocean; title: Reconciling Columbus And Ptolemy; The Gilt Globe; title: Henry Viii's Atlas; Jean Rotz, The Boke of Idrography; title: The Mysterious 'Iave La Grande'; Harleian or Dauphin map; title: Terra Australis Not Yet Known; Oronce Fine, The New World of Countries and Islands Unknown to the Ancients; title: Where In The World Was India South? Heinrich Bünting, Cosmographia Universalis; title: The Mercator Projection; Gerard Mercator, A new and augmented representation of the world; title: Rethinking The Southern Continent; New Guinea and Polar hemispheres; title: Ortelius' Great World Map; Abraham Ortelius, New world map; title: The First Modern Atlas; Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; title: Australia In 1545; Cyriaco Jacob zum Barth, Astronomia: Teutsch Astronomei; title: Part IV; title: The Indian Ocean World; Petrus Plancius, A new world map, updated in many places; Jan Huygen van Linschoten, His Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies; title: Austrialia Del Espiritu Santo; Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Memorial to Philip III of Spain; title: Hessel Gerritsz, Master Cartographer; Hessel Gerritsz, Chart of Eendracht Land; Chart of the Malay Archipelago and Australia; title: For The Dutch Republic, The Great Pacific; Hessel Gerritsz, Map of the Pacific Ocean; title: At A Safe Distance; Johannes Janssonius, The East Indies; Cornelis Danckerts and Melchior Tavernier, Map of the entire world; title: Hartog's Discovery; Journal of the Nassau Fleet in the years 1623, 1624, 1625, and 1626; title: The Company; Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), VOC bond for 12,000 gulden; Jetso van Vos, VOC ship's log; title: A Journey To The East Indies; Isaak de Graaf, From the Cape of Good Hope to the Sunda Strait; title: A Stolen Chart; Isaak de Graaf, The Indian Ocean showing routes between the Cape of Good Hope and the Sunda Strait; title: Shipwrecked; François Pelsaert, The Unlucky Voyage of the Ship Batavia; Bellarmine jug and cob from the wreck of the VOC ship Vergulde Draeck; title: Tasman's Journal; Abel Jansz. Tasman, The Huydecoper Journal; title: New Holland's Birth Certificate; Joan Blaeu, Eastern and Asian archipelago; title: Tasman's Legacy; Abel Jansz. Tasman, Bonaparte Tasman map; title: 'Terre Australe', East Of New Holland; Melchisédech Thévenot, Account of Diverse Curious Voyages; title: 'Lovers Of Praiseworthy Sea-Navigation'; Hendrick Doncker, Sea Atlas; Pieter Goos, East Indies navigation chart; Pieter Goos, East Indies navigation chart; title: Antarctic World Views; Henricus Hondius, Polus Antarcticus; Nicholas Visscher, A new and very accurate map of the world; title: The Grandest Of Maps; Justus Danckerts, Wall map of the East Indies; title: An Unfinished Beauty; Johannes Loots and Romeyn de Hooghe, Unfinished wall map of the world, eastern hemisphere; title: A Tale Of Two Worlds; Johannes Janssonius, Atlantis Majoris; title: Proof Of The Daring Spirit Of His Ancestors; The De Vlamingh Plate; title: The Last Great Dutch Voyage To Australia; Gerard van Keulen, The South Land visited by Willem de Vlamingh in the months of January and February 1697; title: Part V; title: The Secret Of The Sea; Sir Robert Dudley, The Secret of the Sea; title: The Elusive East Coast Of New Holland; John Thornton, A draught of the coast of New Holland, and parts adjacent; Samuel Thornton, The English Pilot; title: 'To See What That Country Would Afford Us'; William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World; Mariner's callipers; title: Master Globe-Maker; Vincenzo Coronelli, Globe gores; title: New Holland According To The Globe And Sun; Richard Cushee, Terrestrial globe; title: Bel Et Utile; Didier Robert de Vaugondy, Reduced map of Australasia; title: 'No Longer Incognita'; Emanuel Bowen, A complete map of the Southern Continent, survey'd by Capt. Abel Tasman; title: 'Our Trusty Friend, The Watch'; Norman Banham, John Harrison's first and fourth marine timekeepers (replicas of H1 and H4); title: On The Verge Of Greatness; Alexander Dalrymple, Chart of that part of Papua visited by M. Bougainville in 1768; title: Circumnavigating The World; Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, Voyage Around the World; title: Hands Across The Sea ; Jean-Baptiste d'Après de Mannevillette, Le Neptune Oriental; title: 'Little Remains Now To Be Done'; James Cook (surveyor) and Isaac Smith (chartmaker), King George's Island or Otaheite; Newzeland; Part of the sea coast of New South Wales or the east coast of New Holland; A sketch of Botany Bay; Sea coast of New South Wales on the east coast of New Holland; Tupaia (surveyor) and James Cook (chartmaker), The Society Islands; Sydney Parkinson, View of part of the eastern coast of New Holland; title: 'Any News Of La Pérouse?'; Jean Nicolas Buache, Map of the Pacific Ocean drawn by order of the King for the voyage of La Pérouse; title: A Revolution In Charting; Charles François Beautemps-Beaupré, Atlas of the Voyage of Bruny-Dentrecasteaux; title: The Baudin Expedition; Louis Claude de Saulces Freycinet, Chart of the north river; Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (artist) and Claude-François Fortier (engraver), Coastal profiles of Van Diemen's Land and New Holland; title: An Account Of The Voyage To Terres Australes; Pierre Bernard Milius, Manuscript journal; title: Global Roaming; Louis Claude de Saulces Freycinet, General map of New Holland; title: Péron's Grand Statement; Plan of Sydney; title: 'This Excellent Timekeeper'; Thomas Earnshaw, Box chronometer, serial No. 520; Long case astronomical regulator; title: Coastal Profiles; William Westall, Views on the north and south coast of Australia; title: Matthew Flinders: Intrepid Navigator; Matthew Flinders, Gulph of Carpentaria and the neighbouring parts; Part of the coast of New South Wales with its Barrier Reefs; Sheet V - South coast; South coast of Terra Australis; Sketches of the heads of No. 12 and No. 14 Inlets; title: Terra Australis Or Australia; Matthew Flinders, General Chart of Terra Australis or Australia.