This arresting word-painting of some of the world ’s most impressive geographic feature is from a written matter ofGeneral Atlas of the World(do yourself a favour andclick here for the uncropped , hi - res version . Seriously , do it now . )
The volume was published in 1854 by A & C Black Publishing Company ( known in its Clarence Day for printing several variant of the Encyclopædia Britannica ) , and contained upward of seventy mathematical function , reproduced from the steel engraving of noteworthy cartographers Sidney Hall and William Hughes .
The legend that identifies the individual mountains sport on the plate is shown here ( an synergistic , zoomable version can be viewed byclicking here ) , and is really deserving checking out . You ’ll acknowledge , for example , that the tallest peak on this map is not Mt. Everest , but “ Dhawalagiri , ” which today is actually regarded as Earth ’s seventh highest mountain . ( The first prescribed peak of Everest was not published until 1856 , two year after the issue of General Atlas . )
Can you envisage the metre and craft that go into producing this photographic print — from surveying the geography to producing a steel engrave to render a comprehensible , colour - coded print ? It ’s truly impressive to reckon about , and the final product is wonderful to behold .
A present-day list of rivers by distance can be foundhere
A contemporary tilt of mountains by superlative can be foundhere
General Atlas of the World viaThe David Rumsey Map CollectionandBibliOdyssey
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