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To Martin Vargic, it’s neither: It’s an 18th-century-style map that looks like something out of the golden age of cartography, only depicting the world’s 3,000 most heavily trafficked ...
How about an 18th-century-style map of the world? That’s how Martin Vargic sees it. Vargic, who has been creating maps since age 11, spent about 1,000 hours literally mapping out the Internet, ...
Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas ...
This bizarre map, which appeared in the third volume of Diderot’s Encyclopédie, dates all the way back to 1772 — and it’s a total hodgepodge of misinformation. Here’s his [ hi-res version .
John Harrison: How an 18th Century clockmaker figured out where we were in the world. The Yorkshire carpenter became an unlikely hero of the quest to measure longitude ...
A "unique" map of St Peter Port from 1759 has been bought for £10,000 by Guernsey's archives from a Jersey collector. The proceeds will go to the military charity the Gurkha Welfare Trust. The ...
A "unique" map of St Peter Port from 1759 has been bought for £10,000 by Guernsey's archives from a Jersey collector. The proceeds will go to the military charity the Gurkha Welfare Trust. The ...