The atlas was part of an effort to incorporate Western military and technological advances into Ottoman society. Consisting of a treatise on geography, a celestial chart and 24 maps of the world ...

Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by Battista Agnese, included wind heads—illustrations of human faces with puffed cheeks to indicate wind directions. Initially ...

Ocean drainage basin map of Asia Robert Szucs / Grasshopper Geography The new maps show how interconnected the world’s waterways are—how far-flung rivers from different continents eventually ...

The Urban Heritage Atlas is an atlas and an archive that documents and explains, visually, narratively, and with analytical maps, the diversity and uniqueness of the world's historic cities and ...