Maps, says Great Maps author and historian Jerry Brotton, are more than a geographic object, a tool to get us from point A to B. From the ancient Greeks to Google Earth, all human cultures have had an ...

You probably think you know what a map is. And chances are, you’re not totally wrong. Yes, maps are visual representations of how to get from A to B, but if you ask John Hessler, they’re more complex ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

BOSTON – When some of the first maps were printed in the late 15th century, they were simple diagrams of three continents and one giant ocean. Over the next several centuries, more continents were ...

The history of maps can go back 5,000 years. During the early years of maps, there were no rules relating to how they were oriented. Maps now normally go north to south. Before 4 BC, maps were usually ...

The last British monarch to reign over the American colonies had a collection of more than 55,000 maps, each with their own story to tell Sara Georgini - Historian, Massachusetts Historical Society ...

Back when mapmaking was still a fledgling profession in the U.S., cartographers had a trick up their sleeves: they would insert fake towns into the maps they drew. Not to screw up travelers trying to ...

On the first of five visits to Special Collections & Archives this semester, first-year students in the seminar Maps, Territory, and Power in Asia leaned over large tables to peer at maps of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The timeline below shows the results of processing the entire English ...