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natural phenomena (e.g. Ptolemy's world map, Vogt's map of Bohemia),
heraldic coats of arms were popular (e.g. Helwig's map of Silesia), illus-
trations of flowers, etc. (
Figure 2-4
) Some maps offered artistic representa-
tion of town and landscapes panoramas, so called vedute (e.g. Comenius's
map of Moravia); for example, L. Fialová (1970) deals with vedute in
more detail. Later, paregas and vedute were omitted and the sheet was
filled with a map image or various statistics, later photographs.
Figure 2:
J. C. Müller, Map of Bohemia (1720). Author of parergon: V. V. Reiner
