Tag: maps

Plan of Paris, known as Turgot's Map - 1739 Michel-Étienne Turgot (1690-1751), at the head of the Parisian municipality as provost of merchants, decided to...

Frisland? Frislanda, Friesland. Meaning Free Land. Major city looks like Cabaru and Baras? Mid 1600s. I find it hard accepting that these detailed, unanimous, cartography depictions...

Pull out a European map from the sixteenth or seventeenth century and look east. Stretching across what is now Russia, Central Asia, and the...

This book is mental. Portolan atlas 1547 is as beautiful as they come. Strange beings, means of travel from the farthest stretches of your of...

The Tartarian empire was massive. With an emperor with a reputation to match. "Tamerlane emperor of Tartaric called the wrath of God and terrour of...