A Gorgeous Rainbow 19th-Century Geological Map of Europe ... far superior to the one made at the same time in Edinburgh,” the “Geological Map of Europe” by Sir Roderick Murchison and James ...

19th-Century Schoolgirls Were Incredibly Good at Drawing Maps. Many schools required students to trace or re-create maps in order to learn skills that may have helped them later in life.

The tactile map, an innovation of the 19th century, ... Leah Thomas notes that this L.R. Klemm map was made decades after the first tactile maps were printed in Europe and the United States.

Schmidt calls the map an exercise in the “Digital Humanities,” where tools from the 1990s are used “to answer questions from the 1960s about 19th century America.” A Luminescent Map of the ...