Happel, Eberhard Werner (sold)
Eberhard Werner Happel (August 12, 1647 - May 15, 1690 ) was a German author, novelist, journalist and polymath. Though little is known of his education and apprenticeship, he was a prolific author whose works shared freely the qualities of both fiction and nonfiction. He was adept at the inclusion and elucidation of contemporary knowledge in his many works, thus providing his readers with novel scientific and political ideas in the context of his novels.
The earliest map to attempt the illustration of ocean currents - and the subterranean connections between the world's oceans!
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This is the rare, 1675 first plate of Eberhard Werner Happel's map of the world. This striking, unique engraving was 'identified as the earliest attempt to trace 'the more important ocean currents of the world' (The World Encompassed). Happel intended this map to illustrate not only the existence of ocean currents, but their causes: underground oceans, rivers, and volcanic activity, surely, were the cause of the baffling movements of the world's waters. To this end the map also illustrates no fewer than eighteen dramatically engraved volcanoes, at least twenty-four whirlpools, and four speculative subterranean connections between major bodies of water via eight titanic maelstroms. (more details)