The challenge of designing an accurate, detailed world map has stumped cartographers for centuries, but Urbano Monte got pretty close to achieving perfection in 1587. Now, for the first time ...

Stanford University experts digitally assembled what is considered the largest world map produced in the 16th-century. The representation of the world of 1587 by the Milanese cartographer Urbano ...

And what a world it was. The map is packed with fantastical creatures ... Using modern technology to fulfill the vision of a 16th century cartographer is exactly the sort of thing the new map ...

Here’s how it works. A rare, 60-page map of the world illustrated during the Renaissance era is finally on display as its creator intended: with its vibrant pages arranged in a 2D circle ...

While cannibalism is not an unknown practice, especially in times of famine, it was never as widespread as shown in these 16th-century ... on Early European Maps of the New World” by James ...

The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a 16th century rendering that preserved ... equation to quantify the degree of distortion that a world ...

Imagine the bustling streets of Antwerp, where merchants navigated the sprawling city with woodcut maps. Or sailors plotting ... s turn-by-turn navigation, a 16th-century GPS might have been ...

He later succeeded in negotiating with a German prince to buy a 1516 map of the world. Mr. Kislak then donated the map along with other documents and artifacts to the Library of Congress.

but even published maps and globes transformed how Europeans thought. “You could hold the world in your hand”, and its “blank spaces” became territory to “discover” and possess.