- Mar 16, 2022
- Mirela Altic
Rediscovering a Map of the Amazon
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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- Nov 16, 2021
- Richard Pegg
A Chinese Maritime Map of the Sea and Stars
A video tour through an intriguing "pie chart" maritime diagram for a ship in the South China Sea
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- Jul 30, 2021
- Richard Pegg
Zhuang Tingfu: Cartographic Encounters and Echoes
In the late eighteenth century, an encounter between European and Chinese cartography left clues about the diffusion of geographic knowledge
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- Apr 6, 2021
- Richard Pegg
Unique Perspectives on Kyoto
The curator of the MacLean Collection examines graphic representations of urban Japan from the Tokugawa period
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