Bizarre, Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time. The largest known world map of its time—made of 60 individual sheets—can finally be seen as the mapmaker intended.

It’s all down to the European cartographer Geert de Kremer, better known as Mercator, and his 16th century map projection – a common template for world maps today – which distorts the size ...

Colonial landmarks are also shown in West Africa, such as the castle of São Jorge da Mina, ... This 16th-century map is teeming with sea monsters. Most are based on a real mammal.

MAPS of the world have the impossible task of portraying the Earth—a three-dimensional shape—on a flat sheet of paper. Mapmakers have to choose a projection of the globe that approximates the ...

WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - As online titans compete to deliver instant maps to smartphones, the Library of Congress in Washington is focusing attention on an antique "cosmology" printed in ...

Africa is much bigger than you think. Traditional maps have downplayed the size of the continent in comparison to other parts of the world for hundreds of years.