Five centuries ago, a single misprinted image in a German Bible quietly rewired how Europeans pictured the world and their place in it. The 1525 map of the Holy Land, reversed like a mirror image, was ...
This spring marks the 200 th anniversary of the first publication of William Smith’s stratigraphic map of the England. It was, as geologist and splendid writer Simon Winchester titled his 2001 book, ...
Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1525 map is the first ever printed in a bible, but there’s just one problem: it was printed backwards. The document nonetheless stands as a transition point between the ...
In 1793, a canal digger's startling discovery turned the fledgling science of geology upside down. Nearly twenty years later, William Smith published a surprisingly beautifully hand painted map of the ...
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