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Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

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"

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…

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…

Winifred, Samuel, Florence Maud and Stanley.
Unknown man in deckchair.

From over St Michaels Mount

In Mounts Bay.
Showing an aerial view towards Newlyn.

Antiquarian and Liberal Politician.
Born at Castle Horneck, Penzance, the only son of Samuel Borlase and his wife Mary Ann (nee Copeland).
His great great grandfather was Dr. William Borlase, Cornish Historian.

Probably Newlyn

Probably Fragdon

The world map of the atlas attached to Marino Sanudo's "Liber secretorum fidelium Crucis". He sent it to the Vatican in 1321 and it is still there as MS. Vat. Lat. 2972 at the Vatican Library. It was probably drawn by Pietro Vesconte in 1320.

Beach scene with baskets and fish boxes.
Wagons and boats and boys in the foreground

Slide is labelled "The World according to Cosmas, with the walls and arch of Heaven. Above the Creator surveying his works. The rising and setting sun are moving round the mountain in the north."