When a French captain sailed past Japan in the late eighteenth century, a guess about toponyms set off a century of cartographic confusions
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How did Korean cartography evolve in the Joseon period? Explore this interactive Map Chat from the MacLean Collection to learn more about a fascinating collection of atlases.
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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
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Travel alongside the Qianlong Emperor in this interactive tour of a map nearly twenty feet long
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A 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
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A video tour through an intriguing "pie chart" maritime diagram for a ship in the South China Sea
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In the late eighteenth century, an encounter between European and Chinese cartography left clues about the diffusion of geographic knowledge
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The curator of the MacLean Collection examines graphic representations of urban Japan from the Tokugawa period
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