Champ de Mars - Trocadéro: map of the Universal Exposition in Paris, 1900
Map of the world, from a manuscript of Il Dittamondo by Fazio degli Uberti (1447). The Dittamondo is a didactic poem composed under Dante’s influence, that describes the known world through an imaginary journey. Like Farinata, his most famous ancestor, Fazio degli Uberti was a Ghibelline.
Les isles de Porto Venere (the Corsican coast), XVIIIth century. For some reason reminded me of cubism.js.
Map of Corsica, 1742
Map of Nagasaki, 1750, by Guillaume Dheulland
Map of traffic densities in Calcutta, 1913
Map of Guadeloupe, 1656
Japanese world map, early XIXth century (from the Library of Congress). Quite remarkable is the exaggerated size of Japan, in the center of the map; also, the illustrated guide to foreign people that accompanies the map. I’m curious about the legend, since I don’t read Japanese.
A.D.1498. The Discovery Of America. (from a British atlas published in 1830) Behind the clouds is the terra incognita, the land of wonders, El Dorado, the countries that will abduct the traveller and give it back mad or changed forever.
