- Jun 30, 2022
- Elke Papelitzky
A Japanese Map of the World
In this interactive Map Chat from the MacLean Collection, learn more about how Japanese mapmakers saw the world in late 18th and early 19th centuries
Read moreIn this interactive Map Chat from the MacLean Collection, learn more about how Japanese mapmakers saw the world in late 18th and early 19th centuries
Read moreTravel alongside the Qianlong Emperor in this interactive tour of a map nearly twenty feet long
Read moreA 1755 map created by a German Jesuit missionary for the Portuguese Empire casts new light on early European efforts to map the Amazon River valley
Read moreA video tour through an intriguing "pie chart" maritime diagram for a ship in the South China Sea
Read moreIn the late eighteenth century, an encounter between European and Chinese cartography left clues about the diffusion of geographic knowledge
Read moreThe curator of the MacLean Collection examines graphic representations of urban Japan from the Tokugawa period
Read moreAn archaeologist at the Andersonville prison camp describes how a map from the LMEC collections helped solve a puzzle about history
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