Old maps were pricey and precious ... made the Carta marina—he also first dubbed the continents across the Atlantic “the Americas.”) Of course, Europe doesn’t have a monopoly on ...

KING: The Atlantic’s project on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. A security guard walked over to look at the old map. “Florida,” he said with a point and a smile. The map had been ...

That all changed thanks to the work of Marie Tharp. Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps ...

This boat is slow and hot and old-fashioned, and the schedule — ha ... the confusions of Daedalian architecture. The various maps provided by guidebooks look reasonable but prove unsatisfactory ...

Like film stills from a 600-million-year-old blockbuster, Blakey's maps take us back to the Precambrian ... including the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean, and he allowed himself to speculate ...

Concerned that he was the only person with a copy of this map, which depicts the Earth as flat, Homuth protected it. When he learned that the Pioneer Historical Museum in Hot Springs, South Dakota ...