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Maps to Know
150 / World Map / Ptolemy
1154 / World Map / Muhammad al-Idrisi
1300 / Hereford Mappa Mundi
1355 – 1366 / The Gough Map
1450 / World Map / Fra Mauro
1502 / Cantino Planisphere
1507 / World Map / Martin Waldseemuller
1513 / World Map / Piri Reis
1539 / The Carta Marina / Olaus Magnus
1550 / World Map / Pierre Desceliers
1854 / Cholera Map / Dr. John Snow
1898 – 1900 / Poverty Maps of London / Charles Booth
Quick Guide to More Maps
Rome & the Mediterranean
Story Maps
Videos
OSU Libraries
1st in Flight — The Wright Brothers & the Moon Landing
The Beauty of Maps / Atlas Maps – Thinking Big
The Beauty of Maps / Cartoon Maps – Politics and Satire
The Beauty of Maps / London, City Maps – Order out of Chaos
The Beauty of Maps / Medieval Maps – Mapping the Medieval Mind
The Explorers : five Europeans who redrew the map of the world
Films of the San Francisco Earthquake
Kilauea: Hawai’i on Fire
Kilauea: the World’s Most Active Volcano
The London Underground Map
Mammoth Cave, Wind Cave, Carlsbad Caverns
Many ways to see the world : a thirty-minute tour of world map images
Mapping the World / Plunder and Possession
Maps of the Great Explorers
Mapping the World / Spirit of the Age
The Scramble for Africa
Mapping the World / Windows on the World
The Vinland Mystery
Elsewhere
The Greatest HOAX – That was actually True!
How did triangles shrink France?
Icy Warning from the World’s Highest Mountains
Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about
Introduction to Cartography
The longitude problem: history’s deadliest riddle
Maps That Show Us Who We are (Not Just Where We Are)
TEDTalks : Steven Johnson, A Guided Tour of The Ghost Map
Why All World Maps are Wrong
Why is North UP?
Whatever
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The videos in this section are primarily from YouTube.
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