Publisher's Synopsis
This dual-format CD-ROM allows the user to explore how the image of the world has changed, from Ptolemy's geographical theories to today's satellite views, via ten great maps revealed in close-up detail. Audio and text commentaries accompany over 60 colour images, all of which may be saved and printed.;The maps featured, all of which are from the British Library's cartographic collections, are: Psalter mappa mundi, c. 1250; Ptolemy's world map, 1482; Henricus Martellus' world map, c. 1490; Peter Apian world map, 1530; Pierre Descaliers world map, 1550; Frederick de Wit world map, 1668; British atlas map, 1787; world religions and civilizations, 1822; British Empire map, 1886; and satellite mosaic map, 1994.;Publication of this work coincides with the opening of the British Library exhibition, "The Earth and the Heavens: The Art of the Mapmaker"
