Dating the Sir Francis Drake Silver Maps
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14701326 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Terry Bahill (0000-0003-4057-2479, Systems and Industrial Engineering / University of Arizona / Tucson / Arizona / United States, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 291-304 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0317-7173 • E-ISSN: 1911-9925 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cart-2022-0011 |
| OpenAlex | W4320056967 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
The Drake Silver Maps are 68-mm-diameter silver disks with maps of the sixteenth-century known world featuring Drake’s route of circumnavigation. They were probably stamped with dies. The nine existing medallions have weights from 260 to 424 grains (the heaviest one weighs about 28 g). Each of these medallions has a diameter that is about the same as that of a tennis ball. The lightest one is as thin as a thumbnail, and the heaviest one is as thick as a credit card. This article shows that they were most likely created in 1588–89: the strongest evidence for this is that they used the double-hemisphere equatorial stereographic map projection that was first used by Rumold Mercator in 1587
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Cartography · Computer graphics (images · Geodesy · Geography · Geometry · Mercator projection · Stereographic projection · Computer Science · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Historical Geography and Cartography · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Mathematics · Geology
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |