Jarichs’ Solution to the Longitude Problem

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Caerte vande gehele voiage des Experiments vanden Regel, des Gesichts des Grooten Zee-vaerts,

gedaen doer Ordere, vande H°. Mog: Heeren Staten Generael, inden Faere onses Heeren Ao 1618.

GEELKERCKEN, Nicolaas van
?[Leeuwarden
Dierick Alberts,
c1618].
Engraved chart, trimmed to neatline, a few nicks and small tears to margins skilfully repaired, very minor loss to old folds.
316 by 444mm. (12.5 by 17.5 inches).
17644

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Exceptionally rare map of the North Atlantic tracking an experimental voyage conducted to test a new theory of longitude and latitude.

Almost nothing is known about the early life of Dutch cartographer Nicolaas Geelkercken, with Scherpenzeel, Zutphen and Geilenkirchen each variously posited as a potential birthplace. He first appears in the records in 1600, when he produced a picture of the Castle of Verwolde, leading to a suggested year of birth of around 1585;...

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bibliography:

Keuning, Johannes, (1967), 'Nicolaas Geelkerken', Imago Mundi (11) p174-7; Burden, America Addenda, 193a.