. Anglais : l'un des plus intéressants et l'Homann cartes influents, ce 1725 carte illustre la mer Caspienne et de la péninsule du Kamchatka. Essentiellement deux cartes dans un, deux en face de Homann ici juxtapose les parties de l'Asie : la mer Caspienne, qui fait partie de la frontière occidentale de l'Asie et l'Europe, et la péninsule du Kamchatka, la plus orientale des point connu dans l'Asie continentale. Bien que cette combinaison peut sembler étrange pour nous aujourd'hui, au 18e siècle, élevés sur les œuvres de Marco Polo et ancré dans les légendes de la richesse liée à l'orient, elle représentait la légendaire Route de la soie à travers l'Asie

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. English: One of Homann's most interesting and influential maps, this 1725 map depicts the Caspian Sea and the Peninsula of Kamchatka. Essentially two maps in one, Homann here juxtaposes two opposite parts of Asia: the Caspian Sea, which forms part the western border of Asia and Europe, and the Peninsula of Kamchatka, the easternmost known point in continental Asia. While this combination may seem odd to us today, to the 18th century European, reared on the works of Marco Polo and steeped in the legends of wealth associated with the orient, it represented the legendary Silk Route across Asia as well as the eastern and western most claims of the expanding Russian Empire. During this period, both the Caspian Sea and Kamchatka were actively being explored by European powers eager to exploit the riches of Asia. The left hand map, focusing on the Caspian Sea, marks a significant step forward in the mapping of this region, reflecting the 1719 - 1721 survey work of the Russian navy officer Karl van Verden. Verden's work, completed shortly before this map's publication was the most advanced mapping of the Caspian sea to date, offering a new perspective on the region and opening the navigational possibility of the world's largest lake. The right hand map depicts Kamchatka. Though only tentatively explored at this point, Russian forces under Vladimir Alassov took control of the peninsula in 1697. In the process they stumbled upon a small colony of Japanese shipwreck survivors, a discovery that lead the Russians to speculate that Kamchatka was one and the same with Yedso (Jedo or modern day Hokkaido), the northernmost part of Japan. Homann's timely map of the region thus had a significant impact on subsequent cartography of the region. Most importantly Homann's map influenced Engelbert Kaempfer's 1727 History of Japan which laid the ground work for European cartographic representations of Japan for the next 50 to 60 years. Subsequent maps of Japan would incorporate the mythi