From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, 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 ...

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 ...

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, it ...

From maps produced for the kings of Spain and Portugal to a 12th-century world map oriented with south at the top and a life-size hand coloured photograph of a 15th-century map of the world, the ...

Yale conservators and conservation scientists have found that the map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. ... the purported 15th-century map depicts ...

Revealing the map’s faded details provides a more complete picture of Columbus’s perception of geography, notes the historian. “It’s always interesting to learn how people conceived the world at that ...

For his contemporaries, Speed’s maps were not, of course, primarily decorative. As were many early maps, according to Kristina Chan, director of Plaintiff Press (who is currently producing prints ...

Ptolomeo's 15th century world map stolen from Madrid's national library this year and recently found in Sydney by police, is seen in this photo released by Spain's Interior Ministry.

MARTELLUS AND COLUMBUS. Contrary to popular myth, 15th-century Europeans did not believe that Columbus would sail off the edge of a flat Earth, says Chet Van Duzer, the map scholar who led the study.

MADRID (Reuters) - The FBI has returned two 15th century world maps stolen from Madrid's national library this year. The rare maps were found by an FBI agent working in the New York art world ...