1715 William Dampier Antique Twin Hemisphere World Map, California Is. Australia West Hemisphere which oversaw British economic interests

1715 William Dampier Antique Twin Hemisphere World Map, California Is. Australia West Hemisphere which oversaw British economic interests which oversaw British economic interests in its North American colonies The detailed precision of todays computerized Space Age technology no doubt would have astounded Nicolas Sanson—but the seventeenth century mapmakers ability to create a fairly accurate map of a world he had only heard and read about is equally astounding to twenty first century mapmakers original antique Twin Hemisphere World Map by William Dampier was published in the 1715 French edition of A New Voyage Around the World (Nouveau Voyage autour du Monde) Contrary to Dampier's later claim that he had not actively participated in actual piratical attacks during this voyage