16th century copy of an ancient Persian cosmological map
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Fra Angelico, The Vision of Ezekiel, c. 1451-1452
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“The Man of Commerce” is a detailed map that conflates human anatomy with the American transportation system. Published in 1889
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Geological Maps of the Moon
From the Geologic Atlas of the Moon published by the U. S. Geological Survey, 1965
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Islamic Map of the Earth, date unknown
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This thread and many of the things I post are from the archives of Stephen Ellcock on Facebook
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Maps of Kyoto, ca. 1880
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‘Skidi ‘, Pawnee Star Map Great Plains, Kansas
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Sandro Botticelli, The Mappa dell'Inferno (Map of Dante's Hell), ca. 1480 - 1495
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From the Augsburg 'Book of Miracles', c. 1550
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Hildegard of Bingen’s illumination for “God, Cosmos, and Humanity” in Scivias, her book of religious visions, ca. 1151
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Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072
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Manuscript, The Shahnama of Firdawsi, Iran Shiraz, 1539 CE. Work on paper 15.2 x 10 inches
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Hildegard Von Bingen's visions (and migraines) were one of the factors that fueled the crusades

