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How about an 18th-century-style map of the world? That’s how Martin Vargic sees it. Vargic, who has been creating maps since age 11, spent about 1,000 hours literally mapping out the Internet, ...
To Martin Vargic, it’s neither: It’s an 18th-century-style map that looks like something out of the golden age of cartography, only depicting the world’s 3,000 most heavily trafficked ...
A significant piece of California history is going up for auction later this month. Auction house Bonhams will present what it’s calling “the most important 18th century map of California ...
The map, drawn in Mexico and signed by Costano on Oct. 30, 1770 details the inlets of the bay and North Bay, and alongside San Francisco, also names Point Reyes and the Farallones.
Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual. A rectangle and the word “Klosterkullen,” which translates ...
Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual. A rectangle and the word “Klosterkullen, ...