View allAll Photos Tagged 1663
Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucent Edita, from a Dutch Bible Amsterdam, 1663
This map exemplifies the combination of elegant design, skillful engraving, and artistic hand coloring characteristic of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. Current geographic knowledge of the world is displayed in two hemispheres. Diagrams at the top and bottom center illustrate concepts of the universe according to Copernicus and Ptolemy, respectively. The decorative borders contain conventional allegorical representations of the continents; Europe, in the upper left corner, is again seen as the dominant figure with symbols of her cultural and scientific superiority. The background landscapes portray indigenous animals and, in the case of America (lower right), natives engaged in torch-fishing. The map thus conveys information in the realms of geography, astronomy, natural history, ethnography, and mythology, and does so in an aesthetically pleasing fashion.
As of June 8, 2012, several of the Fulton Center's newly built and rehabilitated underground passageways have been substantially completed. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.