Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/1794 Samuel Dunn Map

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Original1794 Samuel Dunn Map is a general map of the world, or terraqueouis globe with all the new discoveries and marginal delineations, containing the most interesting particulars in the solar, starry and mundane system by Samuel Dunn and Thomas Kitchin in 1794.
Reason
Very intense map in English, showing the development of the 18th century carthography. Numerous features include star chart for both hemispheres, seasonal chart, analemma projection, Moon map according to Riccioli, map of Solar System, sunspots, the annual motion of Sun around Earth and telescopic view of planets.
Articles in which this image appears
1794 Samuel Dunn Map, Samuel Dunn (mathematician), History of cartography
FP category for this image
Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps
Creator
Samuel Dunn/Thomas Kitchin

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:09, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]