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We’ve been in touch with train buff, map-lover, and Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society Mark Ovenden to learn more about his latest book Railway Maps of the World. Please tell us a bit about the book. Is it about trains or cartography or design or all of the above? Yes, it is all of…
In 1933, Harry Beck introduced abstraction and simplicity to the world of transit cartography with his diagram for London’s underground system. Ignoring everything above the tunnels except for the Thames, Beck’s concept continues to influence subway diagrams to this day.
Since we're not the ones navigating, do we really need geographically accurate diagrams?
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Cartography Series: Because who doesn't love looking at old maps? This blog series looks at the cartographic development of Canada. Juan de la Cosa's Mappa Mundi (Map of the World) (1500) [Source] Above is the earliest European cartographic work to depict the Americas. (Okay, so, it doesn't really show Canada, per say, but if you…
From the Mediterranean to a young United States, all labeled with precise Ottoman Turkish calligraphy.
Это продолжение предыдущей части... Наши предки полностью соответствовали понятиям Могучие- Все Могущие, так как они прекрасно знали основные законы функцтонирования природы что и позволяло им их использовать например при постройке Пирамид, о чем можно подробнее почитать в моих предыдущих статьях:…
Map of Tartary covering the whole of Asia, north of India to the Arctic Ocean.
In the second half of the 2nd millennium BC, Silesia belonged to the Lusatian culture. About 500 BC Scyths arrived, and later Celts in the South and Southwest. ...
South-east corner of the map The map is oriented with south at the top. Ms. Borg. lat. XVI - first half of the 15th century [c. 1430] Rome BAV S-181 mappa mundi Borgia
These maps show the best and worst qualities of all fifty states in the US, and all European countries.
Every country in Europe is the best at something -- whether it's Italy and life expectancy, Romania and not using cocaine, or the UK and not murdering people. This is what every EU nation is best at.
La organización social azteca proporcionaba los medios para que la gente pudiera vivir reunida armoniosamente: ofrecía alimento, habitación, útiles de trabajo y vestido. Satisfacer las necesidades de una población en aumento formaba parte de las preocupaciones del Estado.
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History map of the Ottoman Empire 1481-1683; illustrating the Ottoman Empire in 1481, acquisitions up to 1520 Selim I, Sulayman I the Magnificent, the Turkish conquest.
Fascinating oval projection of the World, by the distinguished Italian geographer Giovanni Magini published a quarto edition of Ptolemy beginning in 1596. Later editions were also published in Cologne. This particular world map used the oval projection popularized by Abraham Ortelius, and follows that model very closely. Most notable are the large landmasses of Terra Incognita and Terra Australis at both poles. Six wind-heads are arranged above and below the map.
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Для древних народов Европы и Азии Россия была настолько велика и необъятна, что многие принимали ее за несколько разных государств. Сарматия, Гардарики, Ас-Славия – это далеко не все названия, которыми другие народы наделяли эту страну.
