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Welcome to OpenHistoricalMap! OpenHistoricalMap is an interactive map of the world throughout history, created by people like you and dedicated to the public domain. OpenHistoricalMap collaboratively stores and displays map data throughout the history of the world.
Map #32: Buddhist World Map from Japan 1710 CE; Map #33: Jain World Map; 4: Expanding World, 1300 CE- 1570 . Map #34: Catalan World Map, 1375; Map #35: Arabic Portolan, c. 1300; Map #36: Chart of the Mediterranean, Western Europe, and Northwestern Africa 1511; Map #37: Which Way is North: An Introduction to the History of Directions in the West ...
Robinson Projection. This attempt at creating a faithful world map took a similar tack to the Sinusoidal by pulling out the edges of the map to mimic a sphere. The Robinson isn’t as extreme, however, taking the form of a much more gentle oval. The map was an attempt at a compromise between distorting the areas of continents and the angles of ...
Henricus Martellus, a skilled German geographer and cartographer who worked in Florence around 1480 to 1496, created an intriguing map of the world. Some historians believe that Christopher Columbus used this map to convince Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile to finance his 1492 voyage. The British Library digitized Martellus’s ...
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Jun 12, 2015 · The map is similar to a world map drawn by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in 1507, which was the first map to apply the name "America" to the New World. The multispectral images show ...
British Museum, (BM 92687) The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost ...
World map. A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
