Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...

Cartography, or map making, has played a critical role in representing spatial concepts for thousands of years. While the earliest forms of maps displayed geographic information carved into clay ...

The images and text in the gallery above are taken from Map: Exploring the World, published by Phaidon. The book is a collection of beautiful maps and charts which present our attempts to understand ...