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1: Mapping the Skies, Prehistory to Renaissance
Map #1: Lascaux, France: Pleiades, c. 17,000 BCE
Map #2: Polynesian Constellations, 300 BCE–1200 CE Closer Look
Map #3: African Star Lore
Map #4: The Emu, Australia
Map #5: The Origin of the Zodiac, Ancient Mesopotamia: 1130 BCE
Map #6: Greek Constellations and Arabic Stars: The Almagest (150 CE) and Arabic Star Lists (1065 CE)
Map #7: First Maps of the Greek Constellations, Persia, 964 CE
Map #8: Hebrew Zodiac, 1361 CE
Map #9: Dunhuang Star Map (Tang Dynasty), 618-907 CE\
Map #10: Chinese Constellations (Song Dynasty), 1193 CE
Map #11: From Sky to Land: Directions in China, 3000 BCE-Present
Map #12: Albrecht Durer, Map of the Constellations, 1515 CE
2: Rivers and Roads
Map #13: Ancient Mesopotamia: The Town of Nippur, c. 2300 BCE
Map #14: Map of the Route to Paradise, Egypt, 1985-1795 BCE
Map #15: Road Map to the Egyptian Quarries, 1150 BCE
Map #16: Rivers and Roads: the Oldest Map in China, c. 239 BCE
Map #17: Rome Mapped in Marble The Severan Marbles, 203-211 CE
Map #18: All Roads Lead to Rome: The Peutinger Table, c. 350-400 CE
Map #19: River Maps: The Indus River, c.1065 CE
Map #20: Cairo to Constantinople: A Nautical Route Along the Mediterranean, c.1065
Map #21: Crusader Jerusalem, c.1100 CE
Map #22: Gough Map of Britain: Rivers and Roads, c. 1360 CE
3: Mapping the World, 600 BCE – c. 1450 CE
Map #23: Babylonian World Map, 600 BCE
Map #24: Medieval Christian T-O Map, c. 600 CE
Map #25: World Climate Map, c. Fifth Century CE
Map #26: Medieval Islamic Map of the World, c. 1300 CE
Map #27: First Turkish Map of Central Asia c. 1072 CE
Map #28: Hereford Mappamundi, 1300 CE
Map #29: Idrisi’s Circular Map of the World c. 1165 CE
Map #30: Earliest Known Ptolemaic Map of the World, c.1300 CE
Map #31: Fra Mauro’s Map of the World, 1448-1459 CE
Map #32: Buddhist World Map from Japan 1710 CE
Map #33: Jain World Map
4: Expanding World, 1300 CE- 1570
Map #34: Catalan World Map, 1375
Map #35: Arabic Portolan, c. 1300
Map #36: Chart of the Mediterranean, Western Europe, and Northwestern Africa 1511
Map #37: Which Way is North: An Introduction to the History of Directions in the West
Map #38: Map of the Known World by Martellus c. 1490
Map #39: First Map of America: The Cantino Map, 1502
Map #40: Latitude and Longitude: The Keys to Explaining the World
Map #41: Waldseemuller’s Map of the World, 1507
Map #42: The Indian Ocean mapped by Jorge Reinel
Map #43: A Heart-Shaped Map
Map #44: Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Globe, 1519-1522
Map #45: Abraham Ortelius, The Atlas, 1570, Part A
Map #46: Abraham Ortelius, The Atlas, 1570 Part B
Map #47: Mercator’s World Map, 1569
5: Worlds Colliding, c. 1550-1800
Map #48: Native Towns of Spanish Mexico, 1570
Map #49: Guaman Poma, Mappamundi as Satire, 1615
Map #50: Northeast Coast of North America, 1607
Map #51: East and Southeast Asia, 1625
Map #52: Nagasaki Harbor, Japan, 1764
Map #53: Tupaia’s Map of Tahiti for Captain Cook, 1769
Map #54: North American Buckskin Map, 1774-1775
Map #55: Powder Horn Maps, 1750s-1780s
Map #56: Slaves on the Gold Coast of Africa, 1729
Map #57: The Niger River Described by a Fulani Ruler, 1824
Map #58: The Cedid Atlas, 1803
Map #59: Napoleon’s Advance and Retreat from Moscow, 1812-1813
6: Land Surveys, c. 800 CE-1900
Map #60: Japan: The First Rice Field Surveys, Eighth Century CE
Map #61: Chinese County Maps: Dinghai County, 1226 CE
Map #62: Elizabethan Tapestry Map, 1580
Map #63: The Land That Windmills Made: A Dutch Polder Map, 1712
Map #64: Paris on the Eve of the French Revolution, 1789
Map #65: Ordnance Survey Origins: Scotland’s Loch Ness, 1747-1755
Map #66: Thai Map, c. 1782
Map #67: The Vale of Kashmir, 1836
Map #68: The Eight Provinces of Korea, ca. 1850
Map #69: Japan: Gyoki Map on a Porcelain Plate, c. 1830
Map #70: Mongolian Land Survey, 1892
Map #71: Bali: Rivers and Temples, 1935
Map #72: The Great Trigonometric Survey of India, 1802-1866
7: The Natural World, 1800-
Map #73: Alexander Humboldt’s Map of Plants on Chimborazo, 1802
Map #74: Geological Map of Southwestern England, 1815
Map #75: 1851 Whale Chart
Map #76: Monsoon and Trade Wind Chart of the Indian Ocean, 1864
Map #77: Marshall Islands Stick Map, 1870s
Map #78: Crown Prince Islands in Disko Bay, Greenland, 1926
Map #79: Luba Mapping Device, Congo 1930s
Map #80: The Modern Zodiac, 1933
Map #81: Maps into Art: Aboriginal Map, 1987
Map #82: Map of the Ocean Floor, 1977
Map #83: Map of Antarctica, 2004
Map #84: Coastal Flooding in West Africa: Mapping the Future
8: Empires, Wars, 1884-1999
Map #85: Cape to Cairo: The Scramble for Africa, 1884-1885
Map #86: Territorial Claims in Central and Eastern Europe Prior to World War I
Map #87: 1916 Trench Warfare Artillery Map, Flanders
Map #88: Soviet Georgia, from the First Russian Atlas, 1937-1939
Map #89: Japanese Aviation Map of Korea, 1933
Map #90: Royal Air Force Map for Bombing Northern Germany, 1943
Map #91: World War II Silk Escape Map
Map #92: Post-War New World Map, 1942
Map #93: Black Homeland Consolidation Proposals for South Africa, 1973
Map #94: Peoples and Nations of the Former Soviet Union, 1991
Map #95: Decolonization in Africa, 1960-1975
9: Transport, Communication, 1885-2006
Map #96: Brazilian RailwayMap, 1884
Map #97: French National Automobile Map,1900
Map #98: Harry Beck’s 1933 Map of the London Underground
Map #99: Landing on 27R: London’s Heathrow Airport, 2006
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