An untitled, copperplate world map (First meteorological map) (Historical Map)

An untitled, copperplate world map (First meteorological map)

First meteorological map, charting the directions of trade winds and monsoons. Information was collected from navigators familiar with ocean transits, and also from his own tropical experience on St. Helena (1677–1678). On the map, rows of brief lines show the course of the winds; the sharp ends of those lines point to wind sources. Where winds go back and forth, notably in the monsoon-prone area of the Indian Ocean, the lines are thicker than elsewhere and point both ways.

Edmond Halley

French version of Halley's map, accompanying a French translation of his 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,"

no. 183 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London (1686)

1686

14.8 × 48 cm, scale not given

English

Map

World

Edmund Halley

Map from book, included in the no. 183 (1686) of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London

Scale not given

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London

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1686

1686