<P> Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula is a map of the world created by Hendrik Hondius in 1630, and published the following year at Amsterdam, in the atlas Atlantis Maioris Appendix . Illustrations of the four elements of fire, air, water, and land are included . In the four corners, there are portraits of Julius Caesar, Claudius Ptolemy, and the atlas's first two publishers, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius, the father of Hendrik . Among its claims to notability is the fact that it was the first dated map published in an atlas, and therefore the first widely available map, to show any part of Australia, the only previous map to do so being Hessel Gerritsz' 1627 Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht ("Chart of the Land of Eendracht"), which was not widely distributed or recognised . The Australian coastline shown is part of the west coast of Cape York Peninsula, discovered by Jan Carstensz in 1623 . Curiously, the map does not show the west coast features shown in Gerritsz' Caert . </P> <P> This engraved double hemisphere map, Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula, was created by Nicolaes Visscher in 1658 in Amsterdam . It also contains smaller northern and southern polar projections . The border is decorated with mythological scenes, one in each corner, drawn by the painter Nicolaes Berchem, showing Zeus, Neptune, Persephone and Demeter . It is an early example of highly decorated Dutch world maps . </P> <P> Gerard van Schagen (ca . 1642--1724?) was a cartographer from Amsterdam, known for his exquisite reproductions of maps, particularly of those by Nicolaes Visscher I and Frederick de Wit . The map is of 1689 . The original size is 48.3 x 56.0 cm and was produced using copper engraving . There is only one known example, which is in the Amsterdam University . </P> <P> Samuel Dunn (died 1794) was a British mathematician and amateur astronomer . His map covers the entire world in a double hemisphere projection . This map follows shortly after the explorations of Captain Cook in the Arctic and Pacific Northwest, so the general outline of North America is known . However, when this map was made, few inland expeditions had extended westward beyond the Mississippi River . </P>

Who drew the first accurate map of the world