Hackaday2 个月
Hacking Global Positioning Systems Onto 16th-Century Maps
Imagine the bustling streets of Antwerp, where merchants navigated the sprawling city with woodcut maps. Or sailors plotting ... s turn-by-turn navigation, a 16th-century GPS might have been ...
National Geographic news3 年
A Spy, a Map, and the Quest for Power in 16th-Century Europe
Photograph by AKG/Album The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers ... as well as is the coastline of modern-day Venezuela. It is the first map to name the Antilles, the archipelago ...