<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...
What if you could travel through time and watch history unfold, one era at a time? With TimeMap.org, you can do just that—no time machine required. This interactive history map lets you dive into the ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Sebastian C. Adams’s Chronological ...
Although women have always been part of the mapping landscape, their contributions to cartography have long been overlooked. Mapmaking has traditionally featured men, from Mercator’s projection of the ...
The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...
Science: Ptolemy's 'Geography, ' c. AD 150 -- Exchange: Al-Idrīsī, AD 1154 -- Faith: Hereford 'Mappamundi, ' c. 1300 -- Empire: Kangnido World Map, 1402 ...