Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula—literally, “a new map of the world’s land and seas”—is famous as one of the first maps to attempt to depict North America as one of the world’s continents. Drawn up by the Dutch cartographer Willem Janszoon Blaeu, the map is a perfect depiction of everything that mattered about imperialism, colonialism, and the riches that came from them in the seventeenth century, especially in the United Provinces (today’s Netherlands), then a major player in the European discovery and colonization of the world.