Thursday, September 5, 2013

Here there be...

Many of you may have already seen some form of Olaus Magnus’ 1539 Carta Marina.  This version is interactive, allowing the user to click on the various creatures to learn what Mr. Magnus had to say about them. While today this map is often treated as a quaint curio, in its time it was the authoritative scientific descriptor of much of the world.

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