When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century ... to Cosmography in the 19th century, there was an obvious problem. The book contained no such map. Scholars and collectors alike ...

Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains over 50 countries. Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is spread across three of the major lines of latitude: the ...

Scientists since the 1940s have argued we normally possess an internal compass, “a map-like representation ... was drawn as an island well into the 18th century. City mapmakers have long worried ...