1670 c. - Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A 1670 era map by Dutch cartographer, Frederik de Wit, depicting North and South America with the “California as an island” myth being perpetuated. It shows a non-existent coastline north of California and a misshaped South America. While providing substantial detail of the Eastern regions of Canada and North America, there is little information on the interior of North America. It depicts Dutch possessions, the Iroquois, New Amsterdam, Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, Plymouth, as well as vignettes of Indians and Indian villages in South America and animals in North America. Regions for Florida, Canada, Mexico, West Indies and South America are depicted as separate geographic regions. The upper left plaque shows an angel and a female figure bearing a cross. The lower left cartouche depicts natives bringing gold bars and baskets of grain to an Indian chieftain. The map, unlike many similar maps published in the 17th century, shows ships throughout the oceans flanking North and South America. De Wit who was active in the second half of the 17th century published world atlases containing anywhere from 15 to 150 maps – none of which were dated.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.043 | 0.013 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".