Antique and Vintage Maps
Who set out to ‘conquer knowledge’ and not just territory?… Napoleon…. He took 154 scholars to Egypt in 1798 and again in 1800 he sent Baudin to Australia. He forced him to take dozens of scientists, botanists, geographers, hydrographers. Baudin mapped the coast of Victoria and named it Napoleon Terre. If he had not been
Gibralta is 206th and thus bottom in the FIFA worldranking. It has 33.000 inhabitants, the highest divorce rate in the world and only has 29 km road (only Tuvalu and the Cocos Islands have less tarmac). Their language is Llanito, a bizarre mix of languages, incl medieval Genoese and Hebrew. Speakers seem to switch languages
BATAVIA mid 19th Century A mid 19th century German plan of Batavia with insert of West Java. Lithograph published by F.A.Brockhans in Leipzig for Brockhan’s Konversations-Lexicon a German encyclopedia that was expanded beyond that of earlier publications, in an effort to become comprehensive – it included geography, history, and biography. Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772–1823) bought
