A map of Novaya Zemlya and its adjoining parts
Date
1674
Creator
Stanislav Loputsky (Russian) , Draughtsman
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p74
Material
Dimensions
height (paper): 172mm
width (paper): 220mm
width (paper): 220mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of 'Nova Zembla' (Novaya Zemlya) sent by the Dutch diplomat Nicolaus Witsen (1641-1717) to Henry Oldenburg, and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 9, no. 101 (1674).
The draftsman, named by Witsen as 'Panelapoetski of Moscow', was in fact Stanislav Loputsky, who designed maps for the Czar (The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. by Hall and Hall, vol. 10, p. 487n1).
This delineation of Novaya Zemlya as a peninsula was generally rejected by the Dutch and was corrected by Witsen in his map of Northern Asia of 1687/88.
Nicolaus Witsen (1641-1717), Dutch statesman, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1689. He was mayor of Amsterdam thirteen times and in 1693 he became administrator of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC).
The draftsman, named by Witsen as 'Panelapoetski of Moscow', was in fact Stanislav Loputsky, who designed maps for the Czar (The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. by Hall and Hall, vol. 10, p. 487n1).
This delineation of Novaya Zemlya as a peninsula was generally rejected by the Dutch and was corrected by Witsen in his map of Northern Asia of 1687/88.
Nicolaus Witsen (1641-1717), Dutch statesman, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1689. He was mayor of Amsterdam thirteen times and in 1693 he became administrator of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC).
Transcription
Nova Zembla, Sinus Dulcis, Waigats, Boij Fluvius, Fluvius qui Sinam versus tendit
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Object history
Nicolaus Witsen, 'A Letter, not Long Since Written to the Publisher by an Experienced Person Residing at Amsterdam, Containing a True Description of Nova Zembla, Together with an Intimation of the Advantage of Its Shape and Position', Phil. Trans., vol. 9, no. 101 (1674), pp. 3-4. (The draftsman is named by Witsen as the painter 'Panelapoetski of Moscow' on p. 3.)
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 29 December 1686, ‘A letter of Mons. Justel was read concerning a relation of the great extent of the empire of the Russians and a map of their territories, then in Holland. On this occasion Mr. Hooke remarked, that he had been credibly informed, that the tide of the flood comes out of the east into a second streight more easterly than that of Weiggats: and consequently, that Nova Zembla is an island, and that there is a great ocean to the east thereof instead of the imaginary Tartaria magna’ (Birch 4:515).
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 29 December 1686, ‘A letter of Mons. Justel was read concerning a relation of the great extent of the empire of the Russians and a map of their territories, then in Holland. On this occasion Mr. Hooke remarked, that he had been credibly informed, that the tide of the flood comes out of the east into a second streight more easterly than that of Weiggats: and consequently, that Nova Zembla is an island, and that there is a great ocean to the east thereof instead of the imaginary Tartaria magna’ (Birch 4:515).
Related fellows
Nicolaus Witsen (1641 - 1717, Dutch) , Traveller and Diplomat, Diplomat
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