Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula : multis in locis emenda
Includes decorative cartouche and inset view: Nieuw Amsterdam op t eylant Manhattans.
1 map : hand col. ; 47 x 55 cm. - Relief shown pictorially. "Cum privil. ordin. general. Belgii Foederati." Fourth state, according to Burden. Appears in author's Atlas minor sive geographia compendiosa. Includes decorative cartouche and inset view: Nieuw Amsterdam op t eylant Manhattans.
Visscher, Nicolaum
[ca 1684?]
hand col. ; 47 x 55 cm.
Latin; Dutch
Map layer 2 - Trees & Forests
Containing patches of trees to represent forests, this layer is interesting because it shows potential areas to be navigated around, used as possible protection, or used to acquire building resources. As depicted in the multi-perspectival illustrations, fortifications and colonial construction used timber.
Map of the Track of the Tornado of April 30th 1852
This map shows what is referred to as the first scientific study of a tornado’s path and the first conclusive proof that tornadoes are an inward, upward, and onward moving column of air. In his article, Chappelsmith notes that people living five miles north of the storm continued to plough their fields during the whole time. The tornado’s track was one mile wide and sped from New Harmony to Leavenworth in 1.5 hours, averaging sixty miles per hour and toppling trees at the rate of seven thousand per minute. Primarily based on his detailed examination of these prostrated trees left in the storm’s wake, he concludes that the “phenomena are incompatible with the rotary hypothesis. . . . I am inclined to believe in Professor Espy’s idea of an ascensional column . . .” [pp. 10–11].
John Chappelsmith
Accompanying his article “Account of a Tornado near New Harmony, Ind., April 30, 1852, with a Map of the Track, &c.”
Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge (Washington, D.C.)
1852
Engraving,
English
From Golconda Illinois, to Wabash River across Indiana & the Ohio River to Georgetown Kentucky, U.S