Terrestrial Planisphaerium, 1696, Carel Allard

One of the world's first multiple hemispherical maps, surrounded by twelve insets, eight small projections representing the world in various orientations, and four small pie charts of hemispherical projections. California, depicted as an island, the "Terra Esonis", stretches between North America and Asia. Also visible are the partial coasts of New Zealand and Australia as well as the coasts of the "Carpentaria" and the "Quiri Regio". Allard's innovative scientific style was copied by a number of other cartographers, including Schenk, Zurner, Homann, and Seutter, and replaced the traditional Baroque ornamentation of the late Dutch period.

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