Atlas of Battista Agnese
First Map of Scotland
Kobo Abe
The Ruined Map
Giuseppe Argano Remondini, Noe Bianchi
Cairo
Sir Alan Patrick Herbert
Sky map
Giuseppe Argano Remondini
Map of Beirut
Al-Idrisi world map
Tabula Asiae based on Claudius Ptolemy’s Geographia
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They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.
— Ivo Andrić
The Bridge on the Drina
Mombaza
(Source: vindsval, via cinoh-deactivated20120915)
Sicilia
Dr. Oliver Dapper
Nineveh
Dr. Oliver Dapper and Franciscus Halma
Babylon
At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look like that) I would put my finger on it and say, “when I grow up I will go there.
—
Joseph Conrad
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(via fuckyeahcartography)
