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Henricus Hondius world map 1595 pub. by Gerard Mercator 

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Early American Land Surveys

The 1690 act of British Parliament revoking land charters in New England nullified existing land grants, titles, and deeds and demanded a survey of publicly and privately owned land in New England, the mid-Atlantic, and the southern colonies. They marked trees, clear-cut forests, and created geometrically shaped lots (16).

-Brückner, Martin. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia : The Geographic Revolution in Early America : Maps, Literacy, and National Identity. Chapel Hill, US: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012. ProQuest ebrary.

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Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500)  

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The history of cartography during this period [16th c] has commonly been understood as a continuation of the scientific revolution that began in the sixteenth century, a story of increasing technical sophistication and deeper professionalization in the production of maps, and therefore in quantum leaps in their accuracy and availability (38)

Brückner, Martin, ed. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Ser. : Early American Cartographies. Chapel Hill, US: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. ProQuest ebrary

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Vicente de Memije "Aspecto symbolico del mundo Hispanico" & "Aspecto geografico del mundo Hispanico" (1761)

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Maps are reviewed according to the utilitarian expectation that maps were scientific records providing a quasi-mimetic representation of physical and cultural landscapes (Bruckner 391)

Brückner, Martin, ed. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Ser. : Early American Cartographies. Chapel Hill, US: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. ProQuest ebrary

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John Heath, ancient plan of E. Hutchinson esq. 1752