Digital Image: 1702 Scherer Map of the Philippine Islands (Philippines) and Guam
PhilippineIslands-scherer-1703_d
Title
Nova Et Vera Exhibitio Geographica Insularum Marianarum Cum Insulis De Pais Marianis ad Austrum Obiectis Nuperrime Inventis.
1703 (undated) 9 x 13.5 in (22.86 x 34.29 cm) 1 : 23000000
1703 (undated) 9 x 13.5 in (22.86 x 34.29 cm) 1 : 23000000
Description
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Digital Map Information
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Cartographer
Heinrich Scherer (1628 - 1704) was a Jesuit cartographer, geographer, and professor. Scherer served as a Professor of Hebrew, Ethics, and Mathematics at the University of Dillingen in Germany until around 1680 when he became the Official Tutor to the Royal Princes of Mantua and Bavaria in Munich. During his time in Munich, Scherer's work as a cartographer gained recognition and acclaim. His atlas, the Atlas Novus was first published between 1702 and 1710 and subsequently reissued between 1730 and 1737. The Atlas Novus is recognized as a revolutionary work that highlighted the highly sophisticated cartographical work accomplished by Jesuits during the early 18th century. The atlas featured maps from all over the known world and included the religious tendencies of the given region, along with the desire to promulgate the Catholic faith. More by this mapmaker...
Source
Scherer, H., Atlas Novus (Munich) 1703.
Scherer's Atlas Novus was published in Munich between 1702 and 1710. The atlas included 180s spread over seven separately titled volumes: Geographia Naturalis, Geographia Hierarchica, Geographia Politica, Tabellae Geographicae, Atlas Marianus, Critica Quadrapartita, and Geographia Artificialis. Each volume featured a fine allegorical title page. The maps combine Scherer's Jesuit Catholic religiosity with serious geographical innovation. In Geographia Politica and Geographia Naturalis he introduced revolutionary thematic maps illustrating mountains, forests, and waterways in physical relief. Most of the maps were engraved between 1699 and 1700 by Leonard Hecknaeur, Joseph Montelegre or Matthus Wolfgang. In general, his work is considered a milestone in scientific and thematic mapping. The atlas was reissued in a second edition between 1730 and 1737.
References
OCLC 165585073.