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Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
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In Isaak Levitan's well-known "mood landscape", the Vladimir Highway, or Vladimirka, takes on a symbolic meaning. The Siberian Route (Russian: Сибирский тракт, Sibirsky trakt), also known as the "Moscow Highway" and "Great Highway", was a historic route that connected European Russia to Siberia and China.
It is recommended to name the SVG file “Europe, 1700—1714.svg”—then the template Vector version available (or Vva) does not need the new image name parameter. Summary Description Europe, 1700—1714.png