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10. 20th Century Tourist Maps. Michael’s. Early 20th-century tourist maps featuring national parks or famous cities and routes can sell for over a hundred dollars thanks to their nostalgic charm ...
20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; 24th; 25th; Pages in category "20th-century maps and globes" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
A plumb bob. A plumb bob, plumb bob level, or plummet, is a weight, usually with a pointed tip on the bottom, suspended from a string and used as a vertical direction as a reference line, or plumb-line.
Modern rendering of Anaximander's 6th century BC world map Ptolemy's 150 CE world map (as redrawn in the 15th century) Anaximander, Greek Anatolia (610 BC–546 BC), first to attempt making a map of the known world; Hecataeus of Miletus, Greek Anatolia (550 BC–476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early ethnographer
20th-century maps and globes (8 P) 21st-century maps and globes (1 P, 1 F) This page was last edited on 8 March 2020, at 14:13 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
[40]: 96 It was not until the 20th century that Pei Xiu's 3rd-century assessment of earlier maps' dismal quality would be overturned and disproven. The Qin and Han maps did have a degree of accuracy in scale and pinpointed location, but the major improvement in Pei Xiu's work and that of his contemporaries was expressing topographical elevation ...
Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States ...
The disputed land had generally been administered by Delaware, even electing a member of the Delaware legislature in the mid-19th century, [377] but federal maps had included the land as part of Pennsylvania at least as late as 1900. [378] The states had agreed on a resolution, and it was affirmed by an act of Congress on this date.