Collection: Osher Collection

Name: The Gentleman's Magazine: for January 1763

Barcode: 744

Image Number: 744.0001

Creator: Buache, Philippe, 1700-1773

Notes: Includes fold-out map: Chart of the Antarctic Polar Circle, with the Countries adjoining, According to the New Hypothesis of M.Buache. From the Memoirs of the Royal Academy at Paris.

Physical Description: Includes a theory of the Antarctic regions and the frozen sea which they are supposed to contain. Buache hypothesised that the southern pole must contain a frozen sea, fed by mountain ranges and huge rivers, in order to produce icebergs of the size reported by Bouvet; the large sea depicted on his 1739 map is an early version of this hypothesis. Buache did not believe that icebergs could form from an ice sheet that had developed on a landmass, as he had no evidence that such ice sheets existed. Includes fold-out chart.

Publisher: Urban, Sylvanus, 1745-1826

Date/Date Range Produced: 1763

Date/Date Range Published: 1763

Language: English

Dimensions: 20 cm. x 22 cm.

LC Call Number: AP4 .G3 1763

OCLC: 748340105

Accession Number: OS-1763-15

Donor: Osher

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/744.0001