Browse Items (17866 total)

Cosmas was a Greek mapmaker and monk living in the 6th century. This image shows 4 men standing on the cardinal points, their feet touching, thus proving to Cosmas that they couldn't all be upright.
The slide is labelled "The Plans of Cosmas - The…

This map shows the whole Mediterranean, the Black Sea and a part of the Atlantic coast, from the north of present-day Morocco to the present-day Netherlands, but the accuracy of the map is mostly limited to the Mediterranean. It is the oldest known…

A copy of a 6th century map by Cosmas, showing the known world, centred on the Mediterranean Sea. It includes the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates and also the Arabian and Persian Gulfs.
The slide is labelled "The Cosmas Map"

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

From Album 3 (Red)
Two women walking dogs down the lane

From Album 3 (Red)

Dating from the mid 13th century this is the first (extant) map to incorporate the travel reports of Marco Polo and Ibn Batuta. It shows Asia up to India, marking places like the Delhi Sultanate and others with reasonable accuracy. The atlas also…

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

From Album 3 (Red)

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

From Album 3 (Red)
Couple standing at a stile.

This world map occupies two pages of a manuscript and is oriented with the East at the top where a framed picture of Adam, Eve and Serpent can be seen. Ethiopia and Libya are identified and the Mediterranean is a narrow channel rising from the…

From Album 3 (Red)

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide