The galleries · 1500 – 1900
Maps & Star Charts on your TV
The world and the heavens as engravers pictured them: celestial atlases, constellation figures, and maps drawn long before anyone saw either from above.

Grynaeus's Novus Orbis Regionum, 1532Sebastian Münster / Hans Holbein the Younger · Wikimedia Commons 
Mercator map of the world united - a pictorial history of transport and communications and paths to permanent peace, 1944Chase, Ernest Dudley, 1878- · Wikimedia Commons 
Peace map of the world united - a pictorial history of transportation and communications from Jonah to the jet plane as paths to permanent peace, circa 1944 date QS:P,+1944-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902Chase, Ernest Dudley, 1878- · Wikimedia Commons 
Beers Ulster County Atlas Page006-007, 1875F. W. Beers · Wikimedia Commons 
Philippi Cluverii introductio in universam geographiam tam veterem, quam novam, multis locis emendata, memorabilibus locorum illustrata et tabulis geographicis auctaPhilipp Clüver · Wikimedia Commons 
Haemisphaeriorum tabula carthesiana (Nla.obj-232350895), 1700Peter Schenk the Elder · Wikimedia Commons 
16th-century world map by Antonio Floriano, 1545-1555Antonio Floriano · Wikimedia Commons 
A General Map of the World, or Terraqueous Globe with all the New Discoveries and Marginal Delineations, Containing the Most Interesting Particulars in the Solar, Starry and Mundane System ., 1794Thomas Kitchin · Wikimedia Commons 
Novissima totius tarrarum orbis tabula, Auctore Hugonis Allardi, 1685Hugo Allard, ca. 1628-1691; Publisher: Amstelodami : s.n., 1685?; · Wikimedia Commons
9 of the 32 pictures in this gallery; the rest hang in the app. Every one is cut by hand to fill a 16:9 screen in 4K.