When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century ... selection of original texts and maps dating from the period of first contact between the New World and the Old. Finally you arrive ...

By the 20th century, maps helped win the Second World War. Winston Churchill fought with guidance from his “map room,” an underground chamber where up to 40 military staffers would shove ...

Much of medieval astronomy and geography were built on his ideas: his world map, published as part of his treatise Geography in the 2nd century, was the first to use longitudinal and latitudinal ...