CULTURETECHLENSAfrica in 1725 — Senex, corrected from the Royal Society
“Africa, corrected from the observations of the Royal Society at London and Paris” — John Senex’s London map of 1725, hand colored, science-corrected and still filling the interior with conjecture.
Cartographer: John Senex, London (per LOC)
Date: 1725
Held at: Library of Congress — loc.gov/item/2005625330
Image: Web copy on this page, 2,000 px wide; full LOC scan 11,734 × 8,707 px at the item record
Rights: Public domain (1725); LOC records no restriction
How to read these maps: the Atlas Source maps are European commercial cartography of their centuries — primary evidence of the European gaze as much as of African geography, with period place-names and colonial framings intact. None is African-produced; pre-colonial African cartography survives in other forms and other repositories, and that absence is part of the record.
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