Though removed from the BBC's website, "The Beauty of Maps," a guide to some of the world's great objects, persists on YouTube One of the first printings of the earliest example of a map of the world ...
From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world. On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a map ...
"First published in France under the title L'Age d'or des Cartes Marines © Éditions du Seuil, 2012"--Title page verso. Catalog of the exhibition at Bibliothèque ...
An exhibition entitled Cartography of Medieval Maltese towns and villages – by Daniel Bugeja – will be opening on Saturday at the Inquisitor’s Palace, Vittoriosa. Malta is dotted with picturesque ...