Amid frenzy over map apps, new focus on 16th century world view. Reuters; World; May 18, 2013 13:19 pm IST. ... Asia and Europa - he feminized Amerigo to America, said John Hessler, ...

Bizarre, Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time. The largest known world map of its time—made of 60 individual sheets—can finally be seen as the mapmaker intended.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A rare 16th-century book lives on thanks to hard work by a librarian at Michigan State University. MSU has held the copy of Ptolemy’s “Geographia” since it was ...

Map aficionados will arrive from near and far for this weekend’s Map Mania Symposium at the New ... Pierre Desceliers' 16th-century map. James M. Keller ; Jun 24, 2016 Jun 24, 2016 Updated ...

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, his ...

Unlike today’s turn-by-turn navigation, a 16th-century GPS might have been all about survival: avoiding bandit-prone roads, timing tides for river crossings, or tracking stars as backup.

Take a look at how the Google Maps of the 1500s compares to today's version, ... Comparing 16th Century Maps to Current Satellite Imagery. Leah Goldman. April 24, 2011 Link Copied.

As online titans compete to deliver instant maps to smartphones, the Library of Congress in Washington is focusing attention on an antique "cosmology" printed in 1507 that serves as America's ...