Historic(al) Map Porn

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Indigenous North American Nations, 16th century (upload.wikimedia.org)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A New Map Of Medieval London (londonist.substack.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Boston 1775 vs Today (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by FireTower to c/[email protected]
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Zoomable, translated version of the 15th century Mappa Mundi (mostre.museogalileo.it)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth | History Today (www.historytoday.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Why Swiss maps are full of hidden secrets (bigthink.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Access Over 181,000 USGS Historical Topographic Maps (www.esri.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Oculi Mundi (oculi-mundi.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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!

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1939 Map of Physics by Frank Jacobs (mander.xyz)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Sauce: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/111845638304911489

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Visualising History: The Spread of European Printing Activity (1450-1650). Mapped! (arts.st-andrews.ac.uk)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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CC0-licensed fantasy map brushes based on historical cartography (kmalexander.com)
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The magnificent medieval map that made cartography into a science (www.newscientist.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Oculi Mundi (oculi-mundi.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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John Wesley Powell's Watershed States Map Map: What If Our Western States Were Shaped by Watersheds? (www.good.is)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Seven Weeks to Venice: History Through Isochronic Maps (resobscura.blogspot.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I (resobscura.substack.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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History of Cartography: Volumes One, Two, Three, Four, and Six (1987) (press.uchicago.edu)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The First Map of the Moon | History Today (www.historytoday.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive / Resources / Poets map (www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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ScottishCastles.xyz - a map of every Scottish Castle (scottishcastles.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Mapping the Battle of Normandy — Project '44 (www.project44.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The Historical Marker Database (mander.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://www.hmdb.org/

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Tabula Selenographica, Map of the Moon, Johannes Hevelius, 1647 (mander.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Sauce: https://c.im/@dangerousmeredith/110680821303834096

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London Medieval Murder Map | Violence Research Centre (www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Map of New York City and Harbor 1864 (upload.wikimedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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