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Early Chinese cartography. Da Ming Hunyi Tu (late 14th century Ming dynasty Chinese map) Maps of Russia. Godunov map (1667) Maps of Scandinavia. Carta marina (c. 1530) Det Kongelige danske Søkortarkiv (1784) French cartography: Cassini maps (1756–1789) Cartography of India. Survey of India (1767) Great Trigonometrical Survey (1802–1858 ...
1 Early modern. 2 Modern. 3 Digital atlases. 4 See also. 5 References. ... Ryhiner Collection Composite atlas with maps, plans and views from the 16th-18th centuries, ...
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection is a large private map collection with over 150,000 maps and cartographic items. The collection was created by David Rumsey who, after making his fortune in real estate, focused initially on collecting 18th- and 19th century maps of North and South America, as this era "saw the rise of modern cartography."
[38]: 93–94 Among the three maps found at Mawangdui was a small map representing the tomb area where it was found, a larger topographical map showing the Han's borders along the subordinate Kingdom of Changsha and the Nanyue kingdom (of northern Vietnam and parts of modern Guangdong and Guangxi), and a map which marks the positions of Han ...
Abraham Ortelius: Map of Europe, 1595. Early modern Europe, also referred to as the post-medieval period, is the period of European history between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the mid 15th century to the late 18th century.
Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.
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Terra incognita, uncharted territories documented in early maps; Vinland Map, a claimed 15th-century map later confirmed as a 20th-century forgery; Virtual Mappa, a project to digitise medieval mappa mundi; Mao Kun map, also called Zheng He's navigation map, a world map dated to the 17th century but thought to be a copy of an early 15th-century map