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Hydrophilacium Africæ precipuum, in Montibus Lunæ situm, lacus et flumina præcipua fundens, ubi et nova inventio originis Nili describitur

Description:

Volume and page number (Tomus I.72) appear in top right-hand corner. From: Mundus subterraneus ... Amstelodami : Apud Joannem Janssonium & Elizeum Weyerstraten, 1665. Map of Southern Africa, showing the source of the Nile under the Mountains of the Moon, labeled "Hydrophilacium sub Montibus Lunæ"; relief shown pictorially.

Resource Link:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9946086213506421

Identifier:

ark:/88435/wm117q829

Language:

la and Latin

Creator:

Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680

Publisher:

[Amstelodami : Apud Joannem Janssoniusm & Elizeum Weyerstraten, 1665]

Provider:

Princeton

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Image

Subject:

Geology—Early works to 1800, Africa, Southern—Maps, Maps—Africa, Southern—1665, and Maps

Theme:

Geology—Early works to 1800, Africa, Southern—Maps, Maps—Africa, Southern—1665, and Maps

Spatial Coverage:

Africa, Southern

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

TIFF