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An illustrated religious map of the world showing Adam, Eve and the Serpent at the top, and the four winds.
The slide is labelled "British Museum 20.e.6 Turin Map by Ottino".

The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest medieval map still known to exist, depicting the known world. It is a religious rather than literal depiction, featuring heaven, hell and the path to salvation. Dating from ca. AD 1300, the map is drawn in a…

Map from The Boke of Idrography byJean Rotz, also called Johne Rotz. He was a 16th-century French artist-cartographer, born to a Scottish father and a French mother.
The slide is labelled "British Museum Bibl. Reg. 20 E. IX John Rotz. Book of…

A map showing the Mediterranean area. The map is oriented with east to the top with the British Isles are in the bottom left corner and India and Sri Lanka at the top.
The slide is labelled "British Museum. COT.MS.B.V. fol 56 Anglo Saxon Map Pt…

An ancient map of the world.
The slide is labelled "Strassburg 9th Century

Apocalypse of Silos, Beatus world map, with Adam and Eve and the serpent in the Garden of Eden The Mediterranean Sea is represented by a line in the centre, the Red Sea by a vertical line. The land is surrounded by water with fish swimming all…

The Contarini–Rosselli map was designed by Giovanni Matteo Contarini and engraved by Francesco Rosselli. It is a copper-engraved map and was published in Venice or Florence in 1506. Printed only a few years after Columbus, it shows the world from the…

Image is of a photograph pinned to a board

Subject is wearing a pale, checked jacket and is holding a lit cigarette ins right hand.

A woman and girl dodging incoming waves on a beach

End Of The St. Just- Pendeen Metamorphic Coastal Aureole

Restored 1670

Mounts Bay Right Of Long Rock

St. Michaels Mount To Penlee Point

Right of Care Brân Farm. Dip at the Penzance - Sacred Road Junction. Clay Tip near and its Stack Right. Carn Keidjack Right.

Poligga Pylons to Chapel Carn Brea

Chapel Carn Brea with Bartine Right

Bartine Hill Castle To Carn Kenidjack

Galver to Dinas , Green Burrows on skyline & Matron Carn below Dinas

Carn Kenidjack to Watchcroft and Carn Galver right