Somer sees great value in the maps and sea charts inspired by New World exploration, and as has been acquiring them ever since he picked up his first in 1982 at a book shop in Amsterdam.

The second copy, created between 1526 and 1527, includes a foldout map of the world. It is a version of a T-O map, which were common in medieval Europe. These maps were simple diagrams consisting of a ...

NEW YORK — Not much is known about how Renaissance cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created his 1516 "Carta marina" world map, possibly the most up-to-date conception of the world at the time ...

This giant, ambitious chart fit neatly with a trend in nonfiction book publishing of the 1920s and 1930s: the “outline,” in which large subjects (the history of the world! every school of ...

When you look at a map of the world, it makes sense to assume that Greenland and Africa are similar in size. But in reality, the African continent is 14 times as big as the icy northern land mass.

John Alsop Paine (January 14, 1840-July 24, 1912) was an archeologist and naturalist who drew the maps included in Sebastian Adams’s Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History. Paine ...