Old Map of Asia, 1640 by Willem Blaeu - Colonial East Indies - China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines cambridge anywhere else

anywhere else

This rather fascinating pictorial map of the Midlands and Eastern Counties (i

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Phelan (O'Phelan)

from 1859 by the architectural firm of Laver and Stent

Old Map of Asia, 1640 by Willem Blaeu - Colonial East Indies - China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines cambridge anywhere elseA truly superb 17th century map of Asia by master mapmaker Willem Blaeu. Blaeu had access to the charts of the Dutch East India Company, and thus this map was the most accurate of its time. Even so, you can see that large chunks of Asia still had not been explored by Europeans. Korea is a roughly shaped island. Borneo and other parts of southeast Asia are rough outlines. And many of the rivers and waterways are just outright fanciful. Around the map