From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world. On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a map ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In 1811 the Fra Mauro Map of the World was shipped from the island of San Michele di Murano across the Venetian lagoon to the Marciana ...

A new exhibition in London brings together 80 of the world's biggest and most beautiful maps, each bearing its own hidden political agenda. British Library curator Peter Barber has selected five of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When the Italian monk Fra Mauro began, sometime around 1448, to create the map that bears his name - the first ''modern map'' in history ...

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