Posted on 07/12/2018 12:35:42 PM PDT by Kartographer
A few hundred years ago, when much of the world was mysterious and unknown, two European humanists came together to produce an extraordinary map of the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
One of the first really cool places I ever found on the internet was a gopher site at a university that had a bunch of maps they’d scanned posted as images. This as actually pre-WWW.
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