It was hand drawn by Monte in Milan, Italy, and only one other manuscript copy exists. At 10 foot square, this map or planisphere is the largest known early map of the world. Planisphere of 1587Īn extraordinary 60 sheet manuscript world map made in 1587 by Urbano Monte has been added to the David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University. View 3 Panoramas of original Collection Spaceīrowse Lists of the Collection's many Atlases The collection supports the study of topics such as history, ethnography, technology, environmental science, genealogy, and art. Browse search facets: What, Where, Who, When. Civil War, Afghanistan, Moon, Mountains and Rivers, Migration, Languages, Religions, Railroads, Climate, Agriculture, Economics, and Zoological. Subject and place examples: Pictorial, Geology, California, New York City, U.S. Popular collection categories include data visualization, celestial maps, atlases, globes, school geography, maritime charts, city atlases, pocket maps, children's maps, and manuscript maps.
Refresh the link to see 250 more. We invite you to get pleasurably lost.Īdvanced search allows refined inquiries for precise results, while browsing encourages serendipitous exploration, honoring the legacy of library shelves. NEW: Random Browse the collection (desktop and tablet only). Here you can see the history of cartography through primary sources from 1500 into the 21st century. The online map collection is a searchable database that allows you to make your own journeys into spatial representations of the past.
The collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, the Pacific, the Arctic, and the World. The historical map collection has over 120,000 maps and related images online. Or take a virtual tour of the Map Center, which hosts events such as the recent Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography : Indigenous mapping. Visit the physical collection at the David Rumsey Map Center at the Stanford University Library. Read the Blog to learn more about collection highlights, such as Urbano Monte's manuscript world map from 1587. Here you can explore maps through a variety of viewers. Welcome to the David Rumsey Map Collection. Read reviews from amazon customers, SF Weekly, or the American Surveyor Magazine.View High Resolution Interactive Globe View All Interactive Globes
Released from ESRI Press, the publishing arm of the world's leading computer mapping company, Cartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed allows readers to witness an evolution in map-making as new lands are explored and the art and science of cartography progresses from early surveyor's rods and chains to modern satellite imagery.Ĭartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed is now shipping and is available for purchase at. From a 1736 atlas depicting California as an island to a Civil War bird's eye view of military positions on the southeastern seaboard, the stunning reproductions from the renowned David Rumsey Map Collection and text illuminate early American history from a uniquely geographic perspective. In Cartographica Extraordinaire, maps serve as time machines, transporting us hundreds of years into the past and showing us extraordinary views of history through the eyes of the mapmakers of the time. Surveying our past—old maps and new technology combine to provide an extraordinary view of American history in a new book by David Rumsey and Edith M. Book cover for Cartographica Extraordinaire
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