Map And Atlas

News maps of the Ukraine conflict hide as much information as they reveal

Most typical maps show the country as an encircled and embattled nation.

Timothy Barney, The Conversation
· Mar 24, 2022 · 11:30 pm
How the Jesuits helped eighteenth-century China’s Qing rulers chart out Asia

The atlas they produced extends west to the Red Sea, and east to Gioi Ri li Omo in Russia.

Xue Zhang
· Apr 13, 2019 · 11:30 pm
From the archive: Fragile 19th-century paintings depict the lives of ordinary Indians

The illustrations were bought in 1842 by a British sailor who kept an idiosyncratic diary about his voyage to the subcontinent.

University of Cambridge
· Nov 07, 2015 · 09:30 pm