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Medieval world maps were not bad at geography, they were not attempting geography at all

There is a standard way of looking at old maps that produces a confident ...
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A history of the world in twelve maps / Jerry Brotton

Science: Ptolemy's 'Geography, ' c. AD 150 -- Exchange: Al-Idrīsī, AD 1154 -- Faith: Hereford 'Mappamundi, ' c. 1300 -- Empire: Kangnido World Map, 1402 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Collection of Maps Owned by England’s First Queen Spent Centuries Overlooked in a Family Library. Now, the Rare Volume Is on Sale for $1.6 Million

Created for Mary I, the first woman to rule England in her own right, the book is “perhaps the most significant artifact of Tudor intellectual history still in private hands,” the seller says Cool ...
Smithsonian Magazine

From Ptolemy to GPS, the Brief History of Maps

Last spring, a 23-year-old woman was driving her car through the Ontario town of Tobermory. It was unfamiliar territory for her, so she was dutifully following her GPS. Indeed, she was so intent on ...
HUB

The hidden histories revealed by maps

Augustine Herrman spent more than 40 years doing business up and down the Atlantic seaboard of the New World in the 17th century. He was Bohemian by birth, and around 1640 the Dutch West India Company ...
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Historic maps of Africa collection

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Historic Maps of Africa collection includes 78 maps and dates from circa 1631 to 1973. Geographic content of individual maps varies from ...
National Geographic

See the Historic Maps Declassified by the CIA

Shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush and several advisors gathered at Camp David to weigh the country’s options. On the table in front of them, as you can see ...