The ancient Greek astronomer and geographer Ptolemy of Alexandria drew a map of the world in the 2nd century, which shows the stone fort as one of only five Irish sites to be noted. The Grianan of ...

We chart how maps have transformed the way we look at the world with Simon Garfield and Jerry Brotton From antiquity to the space age, maps have both expressed our view of the world and have helped to ...

Last spring, a 23-year-old woman was driving her car through the Ontario town of Tobermory. It was unfamiliar territory for her, so she was dutifully following her GPS. Indeed, she was so intent on ...

AFTER a journey around the world, a stolen 1482 map based on the work of the ancient astronomer and geographer Ptolemy has been recovered in a Sydney art gallery. The map, known as the Ulm Ptolemy ...

A 2nd Century map of the British Isles has been made available for the public to view online by the National Library of Wales. The 1486 woodcut map is one of the earliest surviving copies of Ptolemy's ...

A 2nd Century map of the British Isles has been made available for the public to view online by the National Library of Wales. The 1486 woodcut map is one of the earliest surviving copies of Ptolemy's ...

AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr. H. Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very different ...

Explorers didn't sight Antarctica until 1820. But that didn't stop centuries of imaginative geographers from boldly declaring its existence. Follow the course of Antarctic mapmaking, from ancient ...

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