| A Missionary Looking Over the Edge of the World | Frontispiece | | FIG. | PAGE | | ?1.—Tahitian Map | 2 | | ?2.—The World as Supposed to Have Been Conceived by HecatÆus | 11 | | ?3.—The World According to Herodotus b.c. 450 | 15 | | ?4.—The World According to Ptolemy | 28–29 | | ?5.—The World According to Cosmas Indicopleustes | 35 | | ?6.—Beatus’s Map | 38 | | ?7.—The Hereford Map | 47 | | ?8.—Chart of the Mediterranean, 1500, by Juan de la Cosa | 49 | | ?9.—Scaph | 91 | | 10.—Astrolabe | 91 | | 11.—Quadrant | 92 | | 12.—Cross-staff | 94 | | 13.—Davis’s Back-staff | 95 | | 14.—Pretorius’s Plane-Table | 96 | | 15.—Ramsden’s Theodolite | 97 | | 16.—Modern Five Inch Transit Theodolite | 98 | | 17.—The World According to Mercator (1587) | 100 |
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