This giant, ambitious chart fit neatly with a trend in nonfiction book publishing of the 1920s and 1930s: the “outline,” in which large subjects (the history of the world! every school of ...

The map showing the two hemispheres of the world in the Hunterian collection was designed for the Second Qing Emperor of China, Kangxi (1662-1722) by the Jesuit Father Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-88 ...

It was more primordial: to help the map-holder grasp the idea of the whole world, with himself at the center. “There was something almost talismanic, I think, about having the world in your hand ...

The Whole History of the Earth and Life is a documentary which portrays the birth of the solar system, the birth of the Earth, and the emergence and evolution of life on Earth.