Senex, an astronomer and geologist, became a popular map maker of world maps in miniature, early pocket sized maps, and almanac maps. For this chart, an accurate map for the English speaking world for its time, he borrowed heavily from the De l’Isle map. His work did not extend to duplicating French claims to Carolina, which would be reinforced by the important English map by Coxe which reduced all of French Louisiana to an English “Carolana” in fact. Ironically this map is dedicated to John Law, whose infamous “Mississippi Bubble” inflated stock scheme for the region of the Mississippi River proved the financial ruin of many Europeans of the early eighteenth century. Map is from ca. 1719.
From: A New General Atlas / John Senex. 1721.
