Chart containing part of the icy sea, with the adjacent coasts of Asia & America : also part of Greenland, with Baffin's Bay and part of Hudson's Bay.

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Chart containing part of the icy sea, with the adjacent coasts of Asia & America : also part of Greenland, with Baffin's Bay and part of Hudson's Bay.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49283006

This chart is not easily identified with any particular published chart. It depicts the northern parts of North America and contains considerable detail for the region north and east of Hudson Bay. The chart indicates as one source a map brought from Japan by Engelbert Kaempfer and presented to Hans Sloane in depicting the Arctic coast eastward from Alaska.

1 map : ms. ; 30 x 49 cm.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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SNAC Resource ID: 7604634

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Kaempfer, Engelbert, 1651-1716

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Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753

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Hans Sloane was born in England in 1660. He studied chemistry at Apothecaries' Hall, and botany at the Chelsea Physic Garden. He went on to apprentice in medicine under Sydenham, and took over the practice when Sydenham became too ill to work. Dr. Sloane traveled to Jamaica as the physician of the second Duke of Albemarle in 1688. While in Jamaica, he collected and brought home to England more than 800 species of plants. He published two books on his experience and discoveries in Jamaica. After ...