Educational Map Series: Africae Accuratissima davenport Some thousands of years ago

Some thousands of years ago

Washington and western Montana

the natural resources of the region and barriers to travel

while the ornate compass roses allow for more precise directional bearings

including seabirds

Educational Map Series: Africae Accuratissima davenport Some thousands of years agoAn early map of Africa, Totius Afric Accuratissima Tabula, is believed to have been published in Amsterdam in 1688 and is the work of Fredrik de Wit. Who was Fredrik de Wit? Born in Gouda, Netherlands, Wit was a Dutch cartographer, who was active during the second half of the 17th and the early 18th centuries. He worked under Willem Blaeu in Amsterdam, where he resided in the 1640s, and also established his own publishing shop, where he published