Janssonius’ Map of Connaught Author(s)_Theophrastus Turquie Septentrionale en Europe

Turquie Septentrionale en Europe

This edition of Lizars’ railway map was published c

Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724)

Germany consolidated its hold over German East Africa in the late 1880s and 1890s

This is map of the Yugorsky Strait in the Arctic Sea

Janssonius’ Map of Connaught Author(s)_Theophrastus Turquie Septentrionale en EuropeProvincia Connachtiae. The Province of Connaught Joannes Janssonius II (1588 1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked on a revised edition of the Mercator Hondius atlas (which was known as the Atlas Novus from 1638 onwards). The Hondius Janssonius map publishing business traced its roots back to Gerardus Mercator. Mercator coined the term 'atlas' (after the wise, mythical, Mauritanian king rather than the weary titan)