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Current knowledge of Classical map-making is highly speculative for the lack of any significant surviving examples. In order to recreate (lost) antique cartographic types, historians have based their ...

From the start of the colonization, the Spanish Crown needed to know and represent the overseas territories under its control. In the last third of the sixteenth century, surveys were carried on to ...

Researchers from the Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSI) of the University of Seville have published a study of a series of hand-drawn maps that copied the maps printed in the first days of ...