Re: erratum

Daryl and Peter.
One of the first who used the maps(actually seacharts) which Tycho Brahe had
access to were Ortelius. Reason why a copy of the seachart in question where
in the Netherlands were that King Erik XIV of Sweden in 1559/60 had sent a
seachart where Hudson Bay was on but nothing else to Amsterdaam where he
ordered his regalie - the Swedish 'Riksäpplet' made to his coronation. It's
the same seachart version which the English earlier in 1550's had access to
during the marriage negotiations between him and Elizabeth I.
It was much closer to a marriage than what's been said here before. Erik had
loaded a ship here in Gotha Elf area and was about to board the ship when a
servant came telling him that his father Gustav Vasa was ill and that Erik
was soon to be the new King. When he didn't arrive as promised in England
Elizabeth wrote her wellknown Dear Johan letter....

Inger E


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Peter Alaca wrote:

Try this:
Moses Pitt, 1654-1696.
"A map of the North-Pole and the Parts Adioining"
Oxon: At the Theatre, 1680.

Pater (also known as Peter and Petros):
Thank you for that pointer.
That mapcan be seen here, at this excellent zoomable site:

http://ve.tpl.toronto.on.ca/frozen_ocean/hbc_north_pole_1680.htm

A later map has a notation in Baffin Bay:

Thomas Jefferys. Chart containing part of the Icy Sea with
the adjacent coast of Asia and America, and
Chart comprising Greenland with the countries and
islands about Baffin's and Hudson's Bays.
London, 1775.

http://ve.tpl.toronto.on.ca/frozen_ocean/hbc_jefferys.htm

"This noble Discovery was made in search of a N.W.Pafsage,
by Capt. Rob't Bilot, conducted by Will'm Baffin, in 1616 not 22:
Neither did Munck ever enter this Bay, or give it the Name
of Chriftian's Sea as some late Charts and Maps, Englifh as well
as French, would have it."

Whatever was the land that supposedly supplied furs,
which was known as New Denmark or something similar,
it was not the land on the west side of Munck's Christian Sea.
It may have been land on the Atlantic seaboard, e.g.
Labrador, Newfoundland, Quebec, or Nova Scotia.
Munck'smap does not depict the west side of Hudson Bay
with any accuracy, so either it was an intentionally false depiction,
or the cartographer had no idea what the west side of Hudson Bay
looked like.
In either case, the labelling of New Denmark on maps as being
the western side of Hudson Bay was in error, and as soon as it
was properly charted, map-makers stopped using the name for
the west side of Hudson Bay.

-
Daryl Krupa



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