[Meteorological/Astronomical Chart showing trade winds and monsoons in the tropics]

Verlag: Royal Society, London, 1686

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Engraved chart, 155 x 492 mm., with old folds. First issue of Halley's first cartographic achievement. Published in 1686, this is a fine example of his important meteorological and astronomical trade wind chart. The chart shows the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, with parts of the far eastern and western Pacific, between thirty degrees latitude north and south, the area where the trade winds blow. The outline of the western shores of the Australian continent is delineated and the land mass titled Hollandia Nova. Curved, dotted lines indicate the direction of the winds in particular areas, showing the systematic operation of weather patterns for the first time on a map. The great scientist and Astronomer Royal Edmund Halley (1656-1742) would later build on this early thematic map with his use of isogonic lines on maps of magnetic declination, but this was his first published cartographic output. He compiled information from a variety of logs, journals, and mariner testimony, and importantly included his own first-hand observations from his voyage to St. Helena in 1676-8 on which he made his famous astronomical observations of the stars of the southern hemisphere. This chart would have considerable influence on contemporaries including William Dampier (1651-1715), explorer, navigator and naturalist, the first person to complete three circumnavigations, and the most significant explorer between Drake and Cook. Dampier was also the first Englishman to explore any part of the Australian continent and used this chart on his Pacific voyages. This very rare chart was published to illustrate Halley's corresponding article, "An Historical Account of the Trade Winds, and Monsoons, Observable in the Seas between and near the Tropicks, with an Attempt to Assign the Physical Cause of the Said Wind", in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (vol. 16, issue 183, 1686). A French edition was published in 1687. The contributions of to the science and advancement of cartography were of the utmost importance. Halley enjoyed a special position amongst scientists of his generation partly on account of his personal experiences at sea. Later, in 1698, he captained the Paramour on an expedition of scientific enquiry to the Americas and South Atlantic (a narrative of the voyage appears in Dalrymple's 1775 A Collection of Voyages Chiefly in the Southern Atlantick Ocean). His appointment was remarkable for his lack of naval experience; the voyage was the first British scientific expedition, and roughly coincided with Dampier's departure in the Roebuck the same year. The Paramour reached as far south as 52° latitude before icebergs proved hazardous. A wonderful article in the Earth Island Journal compares and connects Halley's indicative pen strokes with the beautiful Viégas and Wattenberg images generated from technologically acquired weather data. . Minor creasing, right edge strengthened on verso.…

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Titel
[Meteorological/Astronomical Chart showing trade winds and monsoons in the tropics]
Autor
HALLEY, Edmond
Verlag
Royal Society, London
Erscheinungsjahr
1686
Einband
Softcover
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Hordern House, founded by Anne McCormick and Derek McDonnell in 1985 and named for our original building in Sydney's Potts Point, is an internationally renowned dealership, specialising in rare books, manuscripts and paintings. Always reflected in our extensive stock of rare and select material is our specialization in voyages and travels (with a special interest in the Pacific & Australia), natural history and colour-plate material, paintings and voyage art, historical maps and manuscripts. We issue regular catalogues, some of which are published online only: all our recent catalogues can be viewed on our website.…

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