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List Of Historical Maps
The following is a list of notable extant historical maps. Early world maps *Babylonian Map of the World (flat-earth diagram on a clay tablet, c. 600 BC) *''Tabula Rogeriana'' (1154) *Psalter world map (1260) *''Tabula Peutingeriana'' (1265, medieval map of the Roman Empire, believed to be based on 4th century source material) *Hereford Mappa Mundi (c. 1285; the largest medieval map known still to exist) *Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) *Gangnido (Korea, 1402) * Bianco world map (1436) *Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) * Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) * Genoese map (1457) * Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) *Cantino planisphere (1502) *Piri Reis map (1513) *Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) *Mercator 1569 world map *''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'' (Ortelius, Netherlands, 1570–1612) *''Kunyu Wanguo Quantu'' (1602) Notable atlases *''Atlas Maior'' (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658) *''Klencke Atlas'' (1660) *''Atlas Maior'' (Blae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piri Reis Map
The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives; it shows the western coasts of Europe and North Africa and the coast of Brazil with reasonable accuracy. Various Atlantic islands, including the Azores and Canary Islands, are depicted, as is the mythical island of Antillia and possibly Japan. The map's historical importance lies in its demonstration of the extent of exploration of the New World by approximately 1510, and in its claim to have used a map made by Christopher Columbus, otherwise lost, as a source. Piri also stated that he had used ten Arab sources and four Indian maps sourced from the Portuguese. More recently, the map has been the focus of claims for the pre-modern exploration of the Antarctic coast. The Piri Reis map is in the Library of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, but is not usually on public display. Description The map is the extant western third of a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlas Mira
The World Atlas (russian: Атлас мира, translit=Atlas mira, , lit=Atlas of the World) is the Soviet and later Russian atlas of the world. Predecessors Initially Russian cartography did not produce original work: the ''Atlas Marksa'' (1905), for example, was merely a translation of German ''Neuer Handatlas'' by Debes. The large ''Atlas Mira'' (1st Russian edition, 1954), with some 200,000 names was therefore a significant milestone. An English edition later followed (''The World Atlas'', 2nd ed., 1967). A similar Soviet project ''Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira'', which was intended to be the most comprehensive atlas of modern times, remained, however, incomplete due to WWII; only two out of three planned volumes (1937/39) were published. Editions First Edition The first edition was made in 1954. It contains 283 pages of maps with a separate book of geographical index which carries 205000 items that cover all of the maps. On the first page of the atlas is a vignett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlante Internazionale Del Touring Club Italiano
The ''Atlante Internazionale del Touring Club Italiano'' was a comprehensive world reference atlas first published by the Touring Club Italiano in 1927. In order to give Italy an extensive reference atlas modelled on foreign examples such as ''Stielers Handatlas'' in Germany, shortly after World War I preparatory work to this end began under the direction of Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli (founder of the TCI, 1859–1926) with collaboration of Olinto Marinelli as scientific editor and Pietro Corbellini as chief cartographer. The atlas, in which toponymy was based on the official language of each country, was presented to the public in 1927 as ''Atlante Internazionale del Touring Club Italiano''; it had 169 leaves of maps, large folio format, and contained more than 200,000 entries. The second edition appeared already one year later and received the highest recognitions at the International Geographical Congress in Cambridge. Three more editions were issued up to World War II. After the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stielers Handatlas
''Stielers Handatlas'' (after Adolf Stieler, 1775–1836), formally titled ''Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde und über das Weltgebäude'' (''Handy atlas of all parts of the world and of the universe''), was the leading German world atlas of the last three decades of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. Published by Justus Perthes of Gotha (established 1785 and still existing there) it went through ten editions from 1816 to 1945. As with many 19th century publications, an edition was issued in parts; for example, the eighth edition was issued in 32 monthly parts. Editions The earliest edition, by Stieler and Christian Gottlieb Reichard, was published as separate plates from 1817 to 1823. There were 47 maps, though the intention had been to publish 50. After Stieler's death Friedrich von Stülpnagel (1786–1865) edited the first (1834-1845) edition, and the second (1845–47) with 107 maps. Petermann contributed to the third (1854–62) edition containing 83 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rand McNally
Rand McNally is an American technology and publishing company that provides mapping, software and hardware for consumer electronics, commercial transportation and education markets. The company is headquartered in Chicago, with a distribution center in Richmond, Kentucky. History Early history In 1856, William H. Rand opened a printing shop in Chicago and two years later hired a newly arrived Irish immigrant, Andrew McNally, to work in his shop. The shop did big business with the forerunner of the ''Chicago Tribune'', and in 1859 Rand and McNally were hired to run the ''Tribune''s entire printing operation. In 1868, the two men, along with Rand's nephew George Amos Poole, established Rand McNally & Co. and bought the Tribune's printing business. The company initially focused on printing tickets and timetables for Chicago's booming railroad industry, and the following year supplemented that business by publishing complete railroad guides. In 1870, the company expanded into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Times Atlas Of The World
''The Times Atlas of the World'', rebranded ''The Times Atlas of the World: Comprehensive Edition'' in its 11th edition and ''The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World'' from its 12th edition, is a world atlas currently published by HarperCollins Publisher L.L.C. Its most recent edition, the fifteenth, was published on 6 September 2018. Editions First generation The first version of ''The Times Atlas of the World'' appeared as ''The Times Atlas'' in 1895; more printings followed up to 1900. It was published at the office of ''The Times'' newspaper in London, and contained 117 pages of maps with an alphabetical index of 130,000 names. The atlas was a reprint of Cassell & Co.'s ''Universal Atlas'', published in 1893. Cassell's atlas, in turn, used maps in English printed in Leipzig which were drawn from the second edition (1887; with some maps of the third edition (1893)) of the German ''Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas'' from the publisher Velhagen & Klasing. Second generatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas
''Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas'' was a major cartographic work (general atlas) published in several German and foreign editions 1881–1937. It was named after Richard Andree (1835–1912) and published by Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig, Germany. By using chromolithography, rather than copper plate engraving, but reproducing the maps from zinc plates that were etched in relief (just like letterpress printing), V & K was able to offer detailed maps at a much lower price than competing works, such as the 7th and 8th editions of Stielers Handatlas. The 1937 edition of ''Andrees Handatlas'' was printed using offset printing. Editions The first edition appeared in 1881. The 4th and 5th editions were edited by Carl Paul Albert (1851-1912); the 6th through 8th editions, by Ernst Ambrosius; and the final edition, by Konrad Frenzel. Cartographers were G. Jungk (†1932), R. Kocher, E. Umbreit (†1904), T. Adolph (†1930), H. Mielisch (†1925), and K. Tänzler (†1944) al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cary
John Cary (c. 1754 – 1835) was an English cartographer. Life Cary served his apprenticeship as an engraver in London, before setting up his own business in the Strand in 1783. He soon gained a reputation for his maps and globes, his atlas, ''The New and Correct English Atlas'' published in 1787, becoming a standard reference work in England. In 1794 Cary was commissioned by the Postmaster General to survey England's roads. This resulted in ''Cary's New Itinerary'' (1798), a map of all the major roads in England and Wales. He also produced Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. There was a ... maps prior to 1805. In his later life he collaborated on geological maps with the geologist William Smith. His business was eventually taken over by G. F. Cruchley (1822 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlas Maior
The ''Atlas Maior'' is the final version of Joan Blaeu's atlas, published in Amsterdam between 1662 and 1672, in Latin (11 volumes), French (12 volumes), Dutch (9 volumes), German (10 volumes) and Spanish (10 volumes), containing 594 maps and around 3,000 pages of text. It was the largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century. Earlier, much smaller versions, titled ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive, Atlas Novus'', were published from 1634 onwards. Like Abraham Ortelius's ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'' (1570), the ''Atlas Maior'' is widely considered a masterpiece of the Golden Age of Dutch/Netherlandish cartography (approximately 1570s–1670s). History Somewhere around 1604 Willem Blaeu settled down in Amsterdam and opened a shop on the Damrak, where he produced and sold scientific instruments, globes and maps. He was also a publisher, editor and engraver. In 1629, Willem Blaeu bought the copperplates of several dozens of maps from Jodocus Hondius II's wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunyu Wanguo Quantu
Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, printed in Ming China at the request of the Wanli Emperor in 1602 by the Italian Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, the mandarin Zhong Wentao, and the technical translator Li Zhizao, is the earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps. It has been referred to as the ''Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography'', "because of its rarity, importance and exoticism". The map was crucial in expanding Chinese knowledge of the world. It was eventually exported to Korea. then Japan and was influential there as well, though less so than Giulio Aleni's '' Zhifang Waiji''. Description The 1602 Ricci map is a very large, high and wide, woodcut using a pseudocylindrical map projection showing China at the center of the known world. The 1906 Eckert IV map resembles the display of this Chinese map. It is the first map in Chinese to show the Americas. The map's mirror image originally was carved on six large blocks of wood and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
