This
rare Ottoman atlas contains beautiful maps of the world
Eastern **rth America, with Spanish, American and French territories colored.
Image: Library of Congress
The
Cedid atlas Tercümesi, or
New Atlas, was published in Istanbul in 1803 by the
Ottoman Military Engineering School Press — the first
atlas to be printed in the Muslim world
The atlas, intended to provide military students and officials with modern geographic information, was produced as part of the “New Order” of Sultan Selim III. The
atlas was part of an effort to incorporate Western military and tech**logical advances into
Ottoman society
Consisting of a treatise on geography, a celestial chart and 24
maps of the world, from Turkey and the Mediterranean to the brand-new United States, the
atlas was based on the works of English cartographer William Faden and his
General Atlas.
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