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An atlas is a collection of maps; ... History of atlases. Atlases, at the US Library of Congress site - a discussion of many significant atlases, with some illustrations.
A historical atlas is a collection of maps and possibly illustrations that depict the historical geography of a particular region at a defined time period. These atlases typically include maps that show the political and cultural boundaries of different states as well as other data, and in some cases illustrations that provide information about ...
Atlas Maior (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658) Klencke Atlas (1660) Atlas Maior (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1662–1667) Cary's New and Correct English Atlas (London, 1787) Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas (Germany, 1881–1939; in the UK as Times Atlas of the World, 1895) Times Atlas of the World (United Kingdom, 1895) Rand McNally Atlas (United States ...
Gran Atlas Aguilar (Spain, 1969/1970) Historical Atlas of China (Taiwan, 1980) The Historical Atlas of China (China, 1982) National Geographic Atlas of the World (United States, 1963–present) Pergamon World Atlas (1962/1968) Times Atlas of the World (United Kingdom, 1895–present) Dorling Kindersley Atlas of the World 1994–present
Atlas and the Hesperides by John Singer Sargent (1925).. The etymology of the name Atlas is uncertain. Virgil took pleasure in translating etymologies of Greek names by combining them with adjectives that explained them: for Atlas his adjective is durus, "hard, enduring", [9] which suggested to George Doig that Virgil was aware of the Greek τλῆναι "to endure"; Doig offers the further ...
The history of the atlas "invites the contemplation of how doctors and medical scientists and anatomists are related to a regime," said Sari J. Siegel, who heads the Center for Medicine, Holocaust ...
Two leaves of The Catalan world atlas. The Catalan World Atlas was produced by the Majorcan cartographic school and is attributed to Cresques Abraham. It has been in the royal library of France (now the Bibliothèque nationale de France) since the time of Charles V. The Catalan Atlas originally consisted of six vellum leaves folded down the ...
The Atlas, first published in 1978 in London, UK, sold more than two million copies in many languages.Its stated aim was to describe the major processes and events of world history across a broad canvas and omit tiny details of, say, ruling families, minor battles etc.