Extant mappae mundi come in several distinct varieties, including:
• Zonal maps (sometimes called Macrobian maps)
• Tripartite … See more

To modern eyes, mappae mundi can look superficially primitive and inaccurate. However, mappae mundi were never meant to be used as navigational charts and they make no pretence of showing the relative areas of lan… See more

In the central Middle Ages a new type of map developed as an aid to navigating the Mediterranean Sea. Known as "Portolan charts", these maps are characterized by extremely accurate coastlines with criss-crossing … See more

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• Barber, Peter, ed. (2005). The Map Book. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-84372-6.
• Crosby, Alfred W. (1996). The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600. Cambridge: Cambridge … See more