Liu's favs

Mwahahahaha...

Unusual and marvelous maps...

Friday, November 6, 2009 8:58:40 AM

An interesting website featuring ancient maps and fantastic artworks.
Much more maps available at www.darkroastedblend.com.

Jerusalem is in the center - from "Itinerarium Sacrae Scipturae", by Heinrich Bunting, 1545-1606


An Italian map of North America from 1566, one of the first ones to describe the northernmost portions as Canada


Asian view of the world situation around the time of the Chinese revolution of 1912


A satirical map of Europe dating from 1870 and indicating the political situation of the day. England holds Ireland, drawn as a vicious looking dog, tightly on a leash, while France struggles against Prussia

Yann Tiersen - Comptine d' un autre été l'après midiExtraordinary people...

Comments

PainterWoman Friday, November 6, 2009 4:30:29 PM

These are interesting and beautiful maps. Thank you for sharing this great find.

Andrea A. Biancoandreabianco Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:35:48 AM



The Andrea Bianco's world map, 1436 bigsmilebigsmilebigsmile

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianco_world_map

(he is my main enemy, I will never become more popular than him on search engines bigsmilebigsmilebigsmile)

Liu Monday, November 23, 2009 11:57:29 AM

Oh Andrea, I really thought it was one of your creative ! I saw a nice fish drawn with this map, don't you ! lol
This famous person might be one of your ancestor ?

Andrea A. Biancoandreabianco Monday, November 23, 2009 12:01:11 PM

Ahah is the fish swimming toward left? Maybe I can see it too p

Mmm I wish I could discover if he was one of my ancestors! bigsmilebigsmilebigsmile

Liu Monday, November 23, 2009 12:04:19 PM

Haha, yes, I like this fish ! wink

Aprilsnow 四月雪Aprilsnow Thursday, December 24, 2009 8:50:25 AM

Beautiful maps, and I like to add this one to your collection. It's a map discovered in 2006, scientific carbon dating has proved it to be an authentic 1763 map, what's interesting about it is that on the edge of this map it clearly said it was a copy of a 1418 map, if it's proved to be true, then this would be the first world map.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Zhenghemap.jpg -
(Click here to see a larger image)

Thanks for stopping by, happy holidays!

studio41 Monday, May 3, 2010 7:51:16 AM

very interesting, visually satisfying- if all learning could be like this...

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