Historic(al) Map Porn
- A New Map Of Medieval Londonlondonist.substack.com A New Map Of Medieval London
Deliciously detailed 13th century plan. And a Tudor one, too.
- Why Swiss maps are full of hidden secretsbigthink.com Why Swiss maps are full of hidden secrets
Cartography is serious business in Switzerland — but once in a while, the occasional map gag slips through.
- Access Over 181,000 USGS Historical Topographic Mapswww.esri.com Access Over 181,000 USGS Historical Topographic Maps
We recently updated our online USGS historical topographic map collection with over 1,745 new maps for a new total of over 181,000 maps.
- Oculi Mundioculi-mundi.com Home | Oculi Mundi
A destination for discovery, shared exploration, and sheer joy, Oculi Mundi is the online home of The Sunderland Collection of antique maps and atlases.
Oculi Mundi is a digital heritage destination: the home of The Sunderland Collection of world maps, celestial maps, atlases, globes and books of knowledge.
The Collection was built out of a personal passion for travel, history, and the imagination. We seek to make it as accessible as possible — for study or for pure joy.
Oculi Mundi takes a fresh, innovative approach to presenting antique material online. We have tried to exploit the full potential of the digital environment and the best of current technology. As tech evolves, so will we!
- 1939 Map of Physics by Frank Jacobs
Sauce: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/111845638304911489
- CC0-licensed fantasy map brushes based on historical cartographykmalexander.com Fantasy Map Brushes
Welcome to a project I call #NoBadMaps. Here you will find brush sets and tools to create fantasy maps that can add a touch of historical authenticity to any project. All my brushes are released un…
- The magnificent medieval map that made cartography into a sciencewww.newscientist.com The magnificent medieval map that made cartography into a science
Some 550 years ago, a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro set out to create a world map. Rather than myth and religion, it was based on solid evidence for the first time
- John Wesley Powell's Watershed States Map Map: What If Our Western States Were Shaped by Watersheds?www.good.is John Wesley Powell's Watershed States Map Map: What If Our Western States Were Shaped by Watersheds?
John Wesley Powell thought our western borders should be shaped by watersheds. A 130-year-old map shows how the West would have looked.
- Seven Weeks to Venice: History Through Isochronic Mapsresobscura.blogspot.com Seven Weeks to Venice: History Through Isochronic Maps
Detail of a 1921 map that visualizes its own accuracy: red regions are accurately mapped, orange less so, etc. Historians love maps, b...
- Historical maps probably helped cause World War Iresobscura.substack.com Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
- Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive / Resources / Poets mapwww.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive / Resources / Poets map
Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA) is a collaborative digital collection and research project devoted to the poetry of the long eighteenth century.
- ScottishCastles.xyz - a map of every Scottish Castlescottishcastles.xyz ScottishCastles.xyz - a map of every Scottish Castle
Scottish Castles.xyz contains a zoomable map showing the location of every map in Scotland.
- Mapping the Battle of Normandy — Project '44www.project44.ca Mapping the Battle of Normandy — Project '44
How well do you know the Battle of Normandy? If you read about places like Authie, Buron, or St. Lambert-sur-Dives, would you know where they were without a map? Would you know what operations took place in those towns or which Canadian units fought there?
- Tabula Selenographica, Map of the Moon, Johannes Hevelius, 1647
Sauce: https://c.im/@dangerousmeredith/110680821303834096
- London Medieval Murder Map | Violence Research Centrewww.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk London Medieval Murder Map | Violence Research Centre
Each pin represents the approximate location of one of 142 homicides cases in late medieval London. Click on a pin to open a window that displays the story behind the event, based on the original record produced by the Coroner. For more information on how to use the map, visit this page.
- Surviving fragment of a 1513 Ottoman world map depicting the new world [449x599] (Original file is 1,964x2,619 pixels).
The map is known by the name of its author, admiral Piri Reis. Only half of the original map survives today.
Source: Wikipedia
- Seen at the Maritime Museum in Bergen, Norway - Norvegiae Maritimae ab Els-burgo ad Dronten, 1680
I find it interesting that the maker chose to orient the map east upwards.
[Image description: an old map of the coast of southern and western Norway, decorated at the top with scenes of fisherman and pastoral life]
- The first navigator with a set of maps that had to be scrolled by hand, 1920.
Sauce: https://botsin.space/@artefactCollection/110652476838849272
- Back In Time: Vintage Maps of Akihabara (1976–2001)blog.gingerbeardman.com Back In Time: Vintage Maps of Akihabara (1976–2001) ⌘I Get Info
I often browse old Japanese console and computer magazines. I’m mainly searching for old Hanafuda Koi-Koi video games, but sometimes I stumble across somethi...
- How Did the Romans Map Their Empire?worldhistory.medium.com How Did the Romans Map Their Empire?
And why didn’t their maps look like ours?
- Amber Road
This will likely be rather rudimentary for experts and professionals, and the map itself isn't pre-1950 but I recently visited northern Italy and had my interest piqued by Aquileia; which lead me to begin looking for info on trade routes from which Baltic amber was able to reach ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and The Caucasus.
I was aware that Cornish and Breton tin had been used in the Late Bronze Age in the Mediterranean but hadn't really considered the trading of Amber which for which the routes pre-date those for tin.
I find the idea of these ancient trade routes to be wonderfully thought provoking. Romanticising about how cultures like the Únêtice organised themselves and cooperated in order to facilitate trade.
If anyone here has spent any time reading about this trade route I would be grateful to hear of anything you found of interest regarding the settlements, societies, professions and daily lives of the peoples involved in this trade.
- Mods wanted!
If anyone would like to help me set up these communities and/or mod, please get in touch. This place is what we make it and I’d love some fresh ideas. I mod a number of smaller science subreddits and would like to help make this place just as nice, if not better!
- The Oldest Maps in the Worldwww.laphamsquarterly.org The Oldest Maps in the World
The oldest recognizable map in the world comes from Ukraine and is dated as much later than cave art, around fifteen thousand years ago. An etched mammoth tusk was unearthed along with many mammoth bo
