| Description |
Antique
map of Italy, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Servia and Macedonia by H.
Scherer for 'Atlas Novus' [1702-1710], printed in ca. 1703.(dated 1699).
Heinrich Scherer was a professor of mathematics in Munich and a devout
Jesuit. Scherer's 'Atlas Novus', was printed in Munich in seven parts
between 1702 and 1710 and forms a singularly unusual, almost
revolutionary work in terms of the development of European mapmaking at
the beginning of the 18th Century. Most of the maps appear to have
been prepared between 1699 and 1700 and were engraved by Leonard
Hecknaeur, Joseph Montelegre or Matth. Wolfgang. Scherer's maps are so
unusual because of their highly decorative Catholic iconography and
the revolutionary thematic nature of many of the maps. |
