Repraesentatio geographica itineris maritimi navis victoriae in qua ex personis CCXXVII finita navagatione rediere tantum XVII quae solo indusio tectae. . . [Magellan's circumnavigation]

This map shows the first World circumnavigation, journey of the ship Victoria of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, from and to Sevilla, thus the first ship ever to circumnavigate the Planet (1519-1522 CE).
This 1699 Scherer map of the world is presented on a north polar [Cassini] projection and depicts all of the world except the South Pole. California is shown as an island and the track of Magellan's voyage around the world is noted by small sailing ships.
There is a distorted portion of Australia noted as Nova Hollandia. Nova Hollandia is now clearly separated from Nova Guinea, although w/o a Southern Coastline. Northwest and Northeast passages are shown. New Zealand appears, although only a part of its coastline is known.

On the left is an engraving of the Victoria, the only remaining ship from Magellan’s armada. On the right, the few survivors of the voyage are shown, making their way to the Santa María de la Victoria church in Seville, where they go to give thanks for their safe return. The date, of the event (according to the cartouche above the scene, is September 7, 1522; the number of survivors is 18 out of the original 237. Several sea monsters and exotic fish fill the oceans.
The choice of a north polar projection is quite interesting: the world is centered on its “empty heart” on the North Pole. In this map the North Pole is not the “margin” but the very center of the Globe. Such a projection was and is still rarely used, as it is centered on an “empty” part of the Earth. But we can find the reasons why Scherer chose it:

First, this projection can show circumnavigation journeys: In a “traditional” projection there would be a rupture and discontinuity between the Americas and Asia, through the Pacific Ocean. Thus the Victoria’s journey would seem cut into two. But in a north polar projection the journey itinerary is more or less “circular” and more to to the journey’s “circumnavigating” mission.
But there might be a deeper and more important reason: Heinrich Scherer was a Jesuit and his 'weltanschauung' was shaped by Jesuit ideas and doctrines. And we think that there was a religious “jesuitic” reason for his map.
In other terms such projection makes this map a natural reason and “glorifies” the Jesuit Mission around the world. This Mission is, of a geographical point of view, a result of the Magellan’s circumnavigating journey.

More on Magellan's Voyage here: https://library.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/pacific/magellan/magellan.html

From: Scherer's "Atlas Novus". Heinrich Scherer (1628-1704) was a Professor of Hebrew, Mathematics and Ethics at the University of Dillingen until about 1680. Thereafter he obtained important positions as Official Tutor to the Royal Princes of Mantua and Bavaria. It was during his time in Munich as Tutor to the Princely house of Bavaria that his lifetime's work as a cartographer received acclaim and recognition.
Scherer's "Atlas Novus", first published in Munich between 1702 and 1710 and reissued in a second edition between 1730 and 1737 was a revolutionary work in terms of the development of European mapmaking at the beginning of the 18th century.
The Atlas comprised 7 separate volumes entitled 'Geographia Naturalis', 'Geographia Hierarchica', 'Geographia Politica', 'Tabellae Geographicae', 'Atlas Marianus', 'Critica Quadrapartita', and 'Geographia Artificialis'. The 180 maps included in this work were prepared between 1699 and 1700 and were engraved by Leonard Hecknaeur, Joseph Montelegre or Matthaus Wolfgang with each volume introduced by fine allegorical frontispieces by the same engravers.

What makes Scherer's maps unusual is their highly decorative Catholic iconography and imagery and the revolutionary thematic nature of many of the maps. Scherer himself was a Jesuit and many of the maps draw heavily from the history and development of the Jesuit order since its establishment by St.Ignatius Loyala in the early 16th Century when it was the driving force behind the European Catholic Counter Reformation.
Scherer's maps vividly chart the revival and spread of the Catholic faith in the late 16th and 17th centuries principally through the efforts of Jesuit missionaries around the globe and most notably in North and South America, South East Asia and the Far East.
Scherer fills his maps with the images of vibrant religiosity, of a vital Catholic Faith of contemporary Jesuit Saints and merciful Madonnas, a World divided between Darkness and Light, between the Protestant-Heathen & the True Believer, between the Chosen Sheep and the Rejected Goats.
This is not surprising given Scherer's Jesuit roots and the publication of his work in the deeply conservative Catholic Bavarian stronghold of Munich. In this imagery, Scherer took some of the first steps towards the development of what may be called thematic cartography.

On many of his maps he divides the world between areas of shaded darkness and unshaded light, the latter representing the light of the Catholic faith around the globe, albeit sometimes being shown in terms of hope rather than reality. This is certainly true for example in China, an area which Scherer invariably shows as unshaded in spite of the stumbling progress and limited successes of the small Jesuit Mission established in China by Matteo Ricci in the late 16th century.
Scherer takes thematic cartography one step further in the Geographia Politica and Geographia Naturalis. He produces maps that remove political boundaries, borders and place names, replacing them with the revolutionary concept for the period of showing the Mountains and forests in physical relief with all of the major waterways and rivers systems clearly depicted.
Scherer's atlas forms an important milestone in the development of scientific and thematic cartography, providing a remarkable and revolutionary alternative vision of the World in showing only its major physical and topographical features.

Reference: Shirley 626