In 15th-century Europe, the apocalypse weighed heavily ... ends with a short discussion of the purpose and function of world maps. It’s here, Van Duzer says, that the author outlines an ...

It was hailed as the first proof of Viking exploration to the America and the earliest known map of the New World. Moreover ... was forged and drawn on a 15th Century parchment.

When it surfaced in 1957, it was too good to be true: a purported 15th-century world map depicting an island to the far west labeled Vinilandia Insula -- the fabled Vinland -- proof positive ...

This week at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, from August 11-19, an interdisciplinary team is at work on a multispectral imaging project to facilitate the study of a 15th century world ...

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 of the world occupies an entire room ...

The Vinland Map, once believed to be the earliest cartographic depiction of the New World, has been proven ... an in-depth analysis of the purported 15th-century map, determining that it was ...

As were many early maps, according to Kristina Chan, director of Plaintiff Press (who is currently producing prints based on a late-15th-century world map by Renaissance Italian humanist Francesco ...