As a result, the interior forms a large harbor, affording residents easy commerce with one another. According to More, it is about two hundred miles broad at the widest point, with its ends or horns forming a strait that is eleven miles across. As conceived, the island has the basic shape of a crescent moon. 1519), brother of the well-known portraitist Hans Holbein, the Younger. First published in 1516, the fictional work was further revised by More and issued in this Basel edition with a more elaborate map engraved by Ambrosius Holbein (ca. Map of Utopia from the work that originated the word. Reference: Hill, Cartographic Curiosities, 22. statv, deqve noua insula Vtopia, libellus uere aureus, nec minus salutaris quàm festiuus. “Utopiæ insulæ tabula.” Woodcut map, 17.9 × 11.9 cm. More was imprisoned in the Tower of London for treason, found guilty of perjury, and subsequently beheaded-this, after years of loyalty and service to the king as an adviser and as Lord Chancellor. Recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church, English humanist Sir Thomas More is revered for resolutely refusing to accept King Henry VIII (1491–1547) as the supreme head of the Church of England, authority the king needed to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon so he could wed Anne Boleyn and, he hoped, produce an heir. (Antwerp: apud Iohannem Foulerum, Anglum, 1573). From his A Dialogve of Cumfort against Tribulation.

Utopia by Thomas More