Photograph by AKG/Album The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco ... a magnificent reminder of Europe’s first efforts to chart ...

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 ...

An 18th-century map of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, one of the greatest empires in Europe, source: Polona.pl The Partitions of Poland came in the late 18th century. But ...