A set of six of celestial charts demonstrating the Muggletonian sect’s geocentric astronomical theory, which adamantly refuted the Newtonian standpoint. The Muggletonians were an odd religious sect founded in the aftermath […]
For this entry into our blog, our emphasis moves to Africa, highlighting a series of maps which illustrate one of the most enduring and important quests recorded in the annals […]
The focus of our Map of the Month this time is “A Description of East India Conteyning th’Empire of the Great Mogoll.”This is the first regional map of India in […]
This exquisite piece, engraved by Adriaen Collaert and designed by Johannes Stradanus, was published in Florence c.1600. A tribute to Christopher Columbus, it praises his accomplishments and illustrates the 1492 endeavour to the New […]
This Map of the Month is a piece celebrated as one of the most important documents in the annals of European activity in the Far East. The “Nova Tabula Insularum Iavae, […]
Britain and France had been at war for twelve years when James Gillray created what is now considered to be his most notable caricature – The Plumb-Pudding in Danger; – […]
The map featured on our blog today is a very complicated piece of cartography. It was first issued as a topographical folding map of the Balkan Peninsula; however, in 1878, […]
The next map featured on our blog records one of the most remarkable archaeological expeditions ever undertaken. Its accomplishments changed the history of the printed word; in fact, these accomplishments […]
This particular entry into our blog is entitled “The Southern Countries of India from Madrass to Cape Comorin, describing the Routes of The Armies of Colonels Fullarton and Humberston during […]
Jumping forward in time, our offering this month is an important piece of map-making in the annals of oil discovery and production in the 20th century: “Geologic Map of the […]
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