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Atlas appears to be holding up the sky, not the earth, which is apparently correct.
"Terra Australis" has a long history based on the idea that a southern continent must exist to balance all of the land masses north of the equator.
Julius Caesar is one of the twelve Roman emperors with vignettes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
Europa is one of the four female allegorical representations of the continents of Europe, Asia, America and Africa.
The "Europaei" are one of six groups of national figures.
The lines on this map may still have some functional purpose, but I find them to be spectacularly beautiful.
My colleague William lives in Ljubliana, which I believe is Carniola on the map.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carniola
Not sure exactly how to read the table, but here is London.
Sleigh ride?
Laubach is Ljubljana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana
see also the band https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laibach
I think this is Moscow but not sure.
Formerly Konigsburg, German, now Kalingrad, part of Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6nigsberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad
Present day Kamien Pomorski, in Poland.
Amsterdam. Map has north to right side.
What kind of animals are pulling this man?
Emden is located in Germany.
Zwolle. Has a city center that still looks like a fort.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&url=https%3A...
Amsterdam
Spectacular mermaid.
Amsterdam.
Modern-day Gorinchem.
Rotterdam.
Modern-day "Cathedral of Our Lady"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Our_Lady_(Antwerp)
The Bourse of Antwerp, the world's first commodity exchange.
Maastricht
I wonder what is the meaning of this star and the letters around it?
Is this a wine-making region?
Mainz
Bonn
This area, Trevirensis, refers to one of the oldest Dioceses in all of Germany. I am curious why, then, are the figures in this beautiful cartouche not more religious...although maybe the presence of the devil is intended to make a religious point, that too much wine can be a problem.
What's going on here? Is someone being cooked?
Vienna looked a lot different 124 years earlier, in 1566. This image by Camocio.
https://eng.travelogues.gr/item.php?view=45633
Vienna
Bellagio and Lake Como
Amsterdam
This area was known as the Duchy of Savoy for about 430 years, from 1416 to 1847.
Once again, unable to figure out exactly what to do with the information they had about Staten Island and Compagnie Land, they put it into the ocean and also named a straight after Vries, the explorer who claimed this land existed.
I'm not quite sure why the lion is wielding a sword over a naked body.
Morea was the name of the Pellopense peninsula in the southern part of Greece during the middle ages and early modern era.
Likely a depiction of the battle in which the Ottoman Empire took control of Candia, a.k.a. Crete in 1669.
Jerusalem.
The Great Wall.
The mapmakers couldn't figure out exactly where Compagnie Land and Staten Island should go, so they drew it into the ocean, ambiguously connected to China and Tartaria. Companie Land and Staten Island were supposed sitings, by a Dutch explorer named Vries, of land on, and the strait between, Asia and America. However, it turned out to simply be two of Kiril Islands. See Raremaps.com and wikipedia, for Vries Strait, a passage between two of the Kiril Islands named after Vries.
Korea as an island.
Mythical "Compagnies Land" supposedly once sited by Dutch explorers in the mid-17th Century.
Pearl River delta.
A map of Morocco, with north to the right side of the map. See on right border "Septentrio", which means north; see also three other sides with names for west (Occidens), south (Meridies) and east (Oriens). See also straits of gibraltar on the right side of map.
Buttons Bay later became Hudson's Bay, although a lower portion of the bay is called Hudson's Bay.
A gruesome scene of someone being killed and two heads on stakes nearby.
Preparing and cooking human body parts. A German explorer had an experience with cannibalism in Brazil in the 16th century that became a theme in maps for over a hundred years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_History:_An_Acc...
This place of Magellanica appears to be either fabricated or based on hearsay from explorers.