A New Mapp of the Whole World
Cartographer:
Overton, Henry
Date of Creation:
1738
The map describes the world in two hemispheres, with two smaller pairs of hemispheres above and below, showing the heavens and the polar regions respectively. This design reflects the world maps published by Gerard Valk at the end of the seventeenth century, but Overton’s geographical configuration is notably less sophisticated, corresponding more closely to the maps of the 1660s
