Carta particolare della cosa di Florida e di Virginia

Date1647

Cartographer Sir Robert Dudley (1574-1649)

Maker Antonio Francesco Lucini (1610-after 1640)

MediumBlack and white line engraving

DimensionsOH: 21 3/4" x OH: 16 7/8"

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Barry, III, Mr. and Mrs. Macon F. Brock, Mr. and Mrs. David R. Goode, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad M. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Johnson, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Moorman, IV, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Roberts.

Object number2017-206

DescriptionCartouche reads: "Carta particolare della costa di/ Florida è di Pico d'Asores./ D'America Carta IIII."

The lower right corner reads: "AF Lucini Fece."
Label TextThe outstanding marine atlas, "Dell'Arcano Del Mare," in which this chart was included, was compiled by an experienced seaman, Sir Robert Dudley. It embodied the most up-to-date naval and navigational knowledge of the time. Although published in Italy, it is considered the first English sea atlas since it was made by an Englishman. It was also the first atlas to use Mercator's Projection, which greatly assists navigation.

Mercator devised the method of drawing the world with the north-south dimension stretched to the east-west dimension at the equator, thus compensating for flattening the shape of the earth on paper.

This copy is published in William C. Wooldridge, "Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War" (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), Map 73.