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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.
The map is 220 years old and we had better not to expect a modern NASA map. thanks for assessment Crisco 1492 Alborzagros 13:29, 6 March 2014 (UTC) Open the image in full size, and look at the bottom left corner (viewer's left). That looks like the map was not sitting square on the scanner, and so the edge of the paper was picked up.
The primary map is surrounded on all sides by detailed scientific calculations and descriptions as well as Northern and Southern Hemisphere star charts, a map of the Moon, a latitude and longitude analemma chart, a map of the Solar System, a mercator projection of the Earth, an analemma projection, a seasonal chart, a universal scale chart, and numerous smaller diagrams depicting planets and ...
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Geopolitical world map, by the Central Intelligence Agency 1572 map of Trier at History of Trier , by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg (edited by Palauenc05 ) 1700 map of Brest , unknown author (restored by S. DÉNIEL )
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The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...