NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

mp 127 NORTH AMERICA America:Heinrich Scherer /1628-1704/,German jesuit,geographer and professor of mathematics in Munich is the author of this coloured copperengraving.This sheet belongs to the Atlas Novus published in 1700.We can admire,how exactly the river Mississipi,discovered by Frenchmen in 1673,is there depicted.The traveller La Salle mapped it in 1682 for the first time.The translation of the indian original name is "Big River". On the contrary the Californian peninsola looks here like an island/after Speed¨s model/.This mistake was removed in the beginning of 18.century by German cartographer and editor Johann Baptist Homann.Exactly depicted are the large Canadian - American lakes,dewatered by the river st.Lawrence to Atlantic,aswell the island part of the middle America.The attentive viewer can take notice of the Canadian/at that time French/towns Quebec ,Montréal/ Mont Real/ and English New York /N.Yorek/,founded in 1626 by Netherlanders on the river Hudson.Its name till 1664 was New Amsterdam. This map has wonderful parergdecoration with many religious and corp motives.