Kircher Tabula Geographico-Hydrographica Motus Oceani - Earliest Map of the World showing the ocean's currents Artists_Edward Lear Texas is still in large

Texas is still in large configuration with a panhandle running up to Oregon

as are the anatomical details of the flowers and the fruit

The colours are also totally different: here

at the very beginning of the Georgian period (George I’s reign began in 1714)

Wilkes returned to New York Harbor with only two of his six ships and a mountain of ethnographic

Kircher Tabula Geographico-Hydrographica Motus Oceani - Earliest Map of the World showing the ocean's currents Artists_Edward Lear Texas is still in largeKIRCHER, Anthanasius (German, 1602 1680). Tabula Geographico Hydrographica Motus Oceani, Currentes, Abyssos, Montes Ignivomos in universo orbe Indicans Engraved map. From: Mundus Subterraneus Amsterdam, 1665. 14 1 2" x 22 1 2" sheet. Earliest Map of the World showing the ocean's currents, chasms and volcanoes as then recorded.