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Zoomable, translated version of the 15th century Mappa Mundi (mostre.museogalileo.it)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth | History Today (www.historytoday.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Why Swiss maps are full of hidden secrets (bigthink.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Access Over 181,000 USGS Historical Topographic Maps (www.esri.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Oculi Mundi (oculi-mundi.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Oculi Mundi is a digital heritage destination: the home of The Sunderland Collection of world maps, celestial maps, atlases, globes and books of knowledge.

The Collection was built out of a personal passion for travel, history, and the imagination. We seek to make it as accessible as possible — for study or for pure joy.

Oculi Mundi takes a fresh, innovative approach to presenting antique material online. We have tried to exploit the full potential of the digital environment and the best of current technology. As tech evolves, so will we!

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1939 Map of Physics by Frank Jacobs (mander.xyz)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Sauce: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/111845638304911489

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Visualising History: The Spread of European Printing Activity (1450-1650). Mapped! (arts.st-andrews.ac.uk)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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CC0-licensed fantasy map brushes based on historical cartography (kmalexander.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The magnificent medieval map that made cartography into a science (www.newscientist.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Oculi Mundi (oculi-mundi.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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John Wesley Powell's Watershed States Map Map: What If Our Western States Were Shaped by Watersheds? (www.good.is)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Seven Weeks to Venice: History Through Isochronic Maps (resobscura.blogspot.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I (resobscura.substack.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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History of Cartography: Volumes One, Two, Three, Four, and Six (1987) (press.uchicago.edu)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The First Map of the Moon | History Today (www.historytoday.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive / Resources / Poets map (www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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ScottishCastles.xyz - a map of every Scottish Castle (scottishcastles.xyz)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Mapping the Battle of Normandy — Project '44 (www.project44.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The Historical Marker Database (mander.xyz)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://www.hmdb.org/

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Tabula Selenographica, Map of the Moon, Johannes Hevelius, 1647 (mander.xyz)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Sauce: https://c.im/@dangerousmeredith/110680821303834096

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London Medieval Murder Map | Violence Research Centre (www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Map of New York City and Harbor 1864 (upload.wikimedia.org)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Surviving fragment of a 1513 Ottoman world map depicting the new world [449x599] (Original file is 1,964x2,619 pixels). (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The map is known by the name of its author, admiral Piri Reis. Only half of the original map survives today.

Source: Wikipedia

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Seen at the Maritime Museum in Bergen, Norway - Norvegiae Maritimae ab Els-burgo ad Dronten, 1680 (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I find it interesting that the maker chose to orient the map east upwards.

[Image description: an old map of the coast of southern and western Norway, decorated at the top with scenes of fisherman and pastoral life]

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The first navigator with a set of maps that had to be scrolled by hand, 1920. (mander.xyz)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Sauce: https://botsin.space/@artefactCollection/110652476838849272

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