PLATE 31. Marginal decoration of Joan Blaeu’s Nova et accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula, from his Atlas Maior, Sive Cosmographia (Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1662), makes the map a celebration of the
Copernican heliocentric universe and links space (the map) with time (the four seasons). Courtesy of the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine (050 A-[1716]).
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