A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.
Reif Larsen
De L’Isle Map of North America, 1708
Double Hemisphere Map, George Louis Le Rouge, 1744
Ancient Rome, 1602
Cheonhado, Korea, 1800
Planisphere Celeste Meridionale, 1705
A plan of Boston and its Environs, Sir Thomas Hyde Page, 1776
Map of the Northern Sky, 1515
Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the Earth (Kunyu wanguo quantu), 1602
Ortelius’s Map of the World, 1564
Al-Idrisi’s World Map, 1154
Leo Belgicus by Hondius & Gerritsz, 1630
World Map, 150 AD, Claudius Ptolemy
Da Ming Hun Yi Tu (Amalgamated Map of the Ming Empire), 1389
Sancai Tuhui World Map, 1607
Antique Maps of the World Double Hemisphere Map, George Louis Le Rouge, 1744
Ancient Mappe Of Fairyland, 1918
Planisphaerium Arateum Sive Compages Orbium Mundanorum Ex Hypothesi Aratea In Plano Expressa, 1660
Psalter World Map, 1265
Map of Africa, Willem Blaeu, 1640
Hemi Scenographican Australe Andreas Cellarius, 1708
War Map of Europe, 1914, Daily Mail
Pietro Vesconte mappamundi, 1320
Mappe Monde, Jean Baptiste Nolin, 1755
Mongol Dominions 1300-1405, William Shepherd (1923-26)
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