Looking for a new scale-bar idea? Well, maybe you weren’t looking for something quite like this. This scale bar is from a map of Virginia and Maryland authored by Augustine Herman Bohemiensis in 1670.
Here’s another one with the same idea, from a 1619 map by William Baffin and Thomas Roe titled “A Description of East India.”
And this one, from the same century, is from a 1664 map of New York (but at the time called New Amsterdam). It is so striking because it is in color! Who has ever seen a scale bar in color? What a strange concept. This one could potentially be implemented in a modern map, actually, perhaps on a children’s educational map.
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