Halley's chart of the trade winds and monsoons, taken from Bibliothèque universelle et historique de l'année, 1687, tome quatrieme.

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Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
French
Published/​Created
[Sydney, N.S.W.] : [State Library of New South Wales], [2016]
Description
  • (W 92°--E 140°/N 35°--S 35°)
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    Biographical/​Historical note
    Edmund Halley (1656-1742) was a scientist, fellow of the Royal Society of London and was the second Astronomer Royal at Greenwich after John Flamsteed. Throughout his life Halley contributed to many scientific fields, including astronomy and mathematics and meteorology. Halley was involved in the efforts to establish a reliable method of calculating longitude at sea and in the early 1700s published a world sea chart. The present map is a close reproduction of the unnamed map Halley included as a supplement to his 1686 essay, 'An historical account of the trade winds, and monsoons, observable in the seas between and near the tropicks, with an attempt to assign the physical cause of the said winds', which first appeared in the Royal Society's 'Philosophical transactions' journal. The chart is considered the first meteorological map ever made and with it Halley established the convention of using arrows to order to indicate wind direction. Sources: Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers, E-J,(2001), p. 254) ; Robinson. 'Early thematic mappping ... '(1982), pp.48-49.
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    Title devised by cataloguer based on contents.
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    In French.
    Other title(s)
    Bibliothèque universelle et historique. M.D.C. LXXXVII. Tome Quatrieme.
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    936253994
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