The map showing the two hemispheres of the world in the Hunterian collection was designed for the Second Qing Emperor of China, Kangxi (1662-1722) by the Jesuit Father Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-88 ...

When many people picture a map of the world, what they're probably thinking of is a Mercator projection, a representation that despite its apparent distortions has been around more than 400 years.

The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a ... “You have encapsulated in this circular diagram the whole of the known world in which people lived, flourished and died,” British ...

Maps and atlases are by definition global, so we see buyers from all over the world too ... We just sell separately published material or whole atlases." He says that so many atlases have ...

The map is partly meant to be an illustration of ... the insignificance of all other lands made them so proud that the whole world seemed to them savage and barbarous compared with themselves.” ...

This is determined in a new study, which presents what the world map of mammals would look like if modern man (Homo sapiens) had never existed. The fact that the greatest diversity of large ...