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English: "A Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection" (c. 1599), sometimes known as the Wright–Molyneux Map. Based on Edward Wright's projection of a globe engraved by English globe-maker Emery Molyneux in 1592, it was the first map to use Wright's improvements on Mercator's projection and was regarded as 16th-century cartographic landmark. Unlike many contemporary maps and charts that represented the often fantastic speculations of their makers, Wright's map has a minimum of detail and leaves areas blank wherever geographic information was lacking. These undefined areas are especially evident along Wright's coastlines. Wright's map is also one of the earliest maps to use the name "Virginia". The map is alluded to in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, when Maria says teasingly of Malvolio: "He does smile his face into more lynes, than is in the new Mappe, with the augmentation of the Indies." See Novus Orbis: Images of the New World, part 3. Lewis & Clark: The Maps of Exploration 1507–1814, Albert H. and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia (2008-01-31). Retrieved on 2008-02-07.