Old Map of the Arabian Peninsula by Mercator, 1595: Ptolemaic projection; Ornate cartouche; Red Sea & Persian Gulf minnesota This map covers a rectangular

This map covers a rectangular region extending 14 miles north to south and 21 miles west to east

Creation date: 1903

celebrating the city’s famed Amstel Brewery

and playful captions—transforms the map into a lively tableau

" it represents one of the earliest English attempts to chart the Mediterranean ports

Old Map of the Arabian Peninsula by Mercator, 1595: Ptolemaic projection; Ornate cartouche; Red Sea & Persian Gulf minnesota This map covers a rectangularAsiae VI Tab., Gerard Mercators 1595 vision of the Middle East in Ptolemaic dress, presents Arabia and the adjacent waters with a scholars rigor and an artists flourish. Here the Red Sea (Sinus Perficus) and the Persian Gulf (Sinus Persicus) are emblazoned in Latin, their shores ringed with ports and promontories drawn from both classical authorities and more recent reports. The peninsulas contours, from Yemen and Oman to the Gulf littoral of Iran,