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A 17th-century map shows New England as a coastal enclave extending from Cape Cod to New France. On April 10, 1606, King James I of England issued a charter for the Virginia Company of Plymouth, (often referred to as the Plymouth Company).
17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd ... 17th-century maps and globes" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
7th century – The poet Kalidasa in his epic Meghaduta, mentions the date of onset of the south-west Monsoon over central India and traces the path of the monsoon clouds. [1] 7th century – St. Isidore of Seville,in his work De Rerum Natura, writes about astronomy, cosmology and meteorology.
A 17th-century map of the Plantations of New England. Beginning in the 15th century with the voyages of Christopher Columbus, various European colonial powers established colonies in the Americas. The Portuguese introduced Sugar plantations in the Caribbean in the 1550s.
A Temperate Empire explores perceptions of climate among colonists and colonial scientists in New England and Nova Scotia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [1] This time span corresponded with the Little Ice Age , a period of lower average global temperatures.
It was the largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century. Earlier, much smaller versions, titled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive, Atlas Novus , were published from 1634 onwards. Like Abraham Ortelius 's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570), the Atlas Maior is widely considered a masterpiece of the Golden Age of Dutch ...
England, France, and the Netherlands made several attempts to colonize New England early in the 17th century, and those nations were often in contention over lands in the New World. French nobleman Pierre Dugua Sieur de Monts established a settlement on Saint Croix Island, Maine in June 1604 under the authority of the King of France.
A Map of New England. A Map of New England, officially entitled A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it made the other less exact: Yet doth it sufficiently show the situation of the country & conveniently well the distances of places, is an early regional map of New England, published ...