An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504 ... Hessler described two types of people in the rare-book and map world: those who get overly excited at any new finding ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually ... South America, Asia, Oceania and Antarctica. Although I love my globe, it’s a bit awkward to carry around.

An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid ... little known to the West, in Asia and Africa, as well as the “New World” of the Americas. Yet that expansion ...

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world ... map is so proportionally accurate that you can fold it up into a three-dimensional globe.

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually ... South America, Asia, Oceania and Antarctica. Although I love my globe, it’s a bit awkward to carry around.