Position Respective des Peuples de la Terre (I): Brion de la Tour c. 1770

Title: Position Respective des Peuples de la Terre Author: Louis Brion de la Tour Date: c. 1770 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good - age toning, issued center fold, slight paper loss in left corners, foxing Inches: 14 1/8 x 11 1/8 [Paper] Centimeters: 35.88 x 28.26 [Paper] Product ID: 102033 "Respective Position of the Peoples of the Earth" Image depicting the orientation of the earth's inhabitants in respect to the sun and the earth's axes. People will fall into one of the following categories: Perioecians: People who live at the same latitude but on opposite meridians, making it noon in one place while it is midnight in the other. Heteroscians: People who live on opposite sides of the equator, one in the Northern and one in the Southern Hemisphere. Except in the tropics, at noon their shadows will always fall in opposite directions; those in the Northern Hemisphere will point north, while those in the Southern Hemisphere will point south.