The cartographer Adam Zürner is noted by Bagrow as having an output of over 900 maps, but despite this, he is relatively unknown. This exciting and detailed world map is among several maps produced for Peter Schenk. The two main hemispheres are cartographically up-to-date and show explorers' routes, including Magellan, Dampier, Tasman, Gaetani and Chaumont. Nova Britannia, an island adjacent to New Guinea, is shown with an inscription saying that Dampier discovered it in 1700. Encircling the hemispheres are markings of the winds and climates, and set around the border are no less than twenty-six smaller astronomical diagrams and hemispheres of the world according to different projections. In addition, there are two larger celestial hemispheres and, at the bottom, a panorama illustrating storms, earthquakes, tides, vortices, etc. Below, there is a textual commentary on the natural phenomena depicted. Similar engravings of the earth's physical forces appear in the later general map by J.B. Homann. (Shirley)