THIS planisphere measures 5½ in. by 5 in. and can be carried in the pocket without the slightest inconvenience. It shows how the stars appear for each month on any selected day or hour to an observer ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Some 1,500 years after stargazers began using rotating star maps to track celestial bodies’ journeys across the night sky, David Chandler figured out how to ...

Imago Mundi is the only English-language scholarly periodical devoted exclusively to the history of pre-modern maps, mapping, and map-related ideas from anywhere in the world. It was founded in Berlin ...

Back when mapmaking was still a fledgling profession in the U.S., cartographers had a trick up their sleeves: they would insert fake towns into the maps they drew. Not to screw up travelers trying to ...

Imago Mundi is the only English-language scholarly periodical devoted exclusively to the history of pre-modern maps, mapping, and map-related ideas from anywhere in the world. It was founded in Berlin ...

From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world. On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a map ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A fascinating interactive map shows how different countries really compare in size – a problem that has for centuries stumped ...