Masterpieces of cartography from antiquity to the present day
"Those who know the world rule it." This saying is no coincidence, as knowledge of geography has always been a strategic advantage of immense importance. With increasing progress and advancing enlightenment, worldmaps have also changed and today provide fascinating insights into the historical development of our view of the world.
The historical maps depicted in "World Maps" do not necessarily tell us what the world looked like 100 or 1,000 years ago. They tell us something about the cartographers, their adventures and also about how our ancestors saw the world. Whether it is a Babylonian world map from 750 BC or a London poverty map from the late 19th century.
Let yourself be enchanted by a total of 700 illustrations and discover who the people behind the images of the world at that time were – 60 milestones in cartography tell their own unique story of the development of our civilisation.
