The Library of Congress has thousands of globe maps inwards its collection. If you lot browse the collection inwards chronological companionship you lot tin explore the history of cartography and, at the same time, arrive at an insight into how the globe has been perceived throughout history. The Library of Congress' World Maps is a small-scale presentation of approximately of the library's most of import globe maps.
I'd similar to accept all the credit for selecting the globe maps inwards this brusk presentation. But I can't. These maps all come upwards from a even map created past times the Library of Congress itself. Maps That Changed Our World is an interesting interactive tour of approximately of the most of import maps owned past times the Library of Congress. Starting alongside the globe atlas from Ptolemy's Geography published inwards 150 AD this even map takes a chronological tour of globe maps through history.
The globe maps chosen for this even map each stand upwards for an interesting shift inwards how the globe was visualized. The maps outset alongside Ptolomy's Geography together with progress through of import maps from the Middle Ages, the 17th together with 18th centuries, together with correct upwards to our modern digital maps.
The Library of Congress' even map includes information most each of the maps which helps to house them inside their historical context. However all the featured maps presented inwards Maps That Changed Our World are presented every bit notwithstanding images. This is why I position together my ain brusk presentation of the Library of Congress' World Maps. My map presentation allows you lot to explore all merely 1 of the maps every bit interactive maps. So you lot tin explore the maps inwards especial inwards my presentation together with larn to a greater extent than most their creation using the library's even map.
The alone map missing inwards my presentation is the globe atlas from Ptolemy's Geography. This is because I couldn't abide by the private iiif manifest for the map on the Library of Congress website.
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