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Field Notes
Sixty manuscript sheets radiate outward from the North Pole in Urbano Monte’s ambitious world map. This digital composite brings the separate sheets together with the diagrams and legends…
Field Notes
Woodbridge’s chart organizes the world around temperature rather than political borders. Dotted isothermal lines connect places with equal average warmth, and color separates climatic regions associated with different…
Field Notes
This oval world map belongs to an expanded Ottoman manuscript of Piri Reis’s Book on Navigation. The original work was composed in 1525, but this richly illustrated copy…
Field Notes
Martin Waldseemüller’s twelve-sheet world map is famous for using the name America, but it is also a striking record of geographic knowledge in transition. Classical traditions and reports…
