smokeandsong:

(Cartographer - Donato Giancola)

rnl365:

Catacombs

Deep below Paris’ winding streets lies a vast network of subterranean tunnels and caverns that are over 300 years old and stretch for more than 300 miles.

natwaddell:

One example from a beautiful collection of historical maps and diagrams of past transits of Venus, the majority of which come from the work of Victorian astronomer Richard A. Proctor. For the full series in high resolution click here.

myimaginarybrooklyn:

Fictional Cartography.

godslonelykid:

by starrymessenger

artpauseonetsy:

Map of the World from Old Postcards by artPause on Etsy

leningradcosmonaut:

Map of Southeast Asia by Thomaso Porcacchi, circa 1576

Isole Molucche.

thekiltedgerman:

Mapping Mirkwood is not easy.

geocrusader80:

A colonists’ map.

geocrusader80:

One of the first maps of the new world using a polar #map projection by Johannes Ruysch in 1508 #cartography #geography via @natgeomaps

1508 Ruysch Map

“One of the first maps of the new world, made by Johannes Ruysch using a polar projection. It includes an extensive view of South America, islands of the West Indies, and a portion of North America. The World Map from Ruysch appeared for the first time among the Tabulae Novae in some copies of the 1507 Rome edition of Ptolemy’s Geography. Ruysch’s map illustrates a number of significant geographic features more accurately than before, particularly along the easterly sea route to the Orient, which was of prime importance to early sixteenth-century Europeans.” 

http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps/print-collection/ruysch-map.html