Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, by Chet Van Duzer, and Sea Monsters: A Voyage around the World’s Most Beguiling Map, by Joseph Nigg, both focus exclusively on illustrations ...

It would be easy to imagine the cartographer invented them on the spot,” says Chet Van Duzer, cartographic historian and author of Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps. Magnus’s map ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. WASHINGTON — The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on ...

Chet Van Duzer, a cartographic historian and the author of Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps analyses Paolo Forlani's 1560 world map – the first known instance of the name "Canada" ...

curly tail shows how the sea monsters age, growing to look more like the iconic images in the antique maps. “All of these story notes and character notes help us to better choose shapes and ...

curly tail shows how the sea monsters age, growing to look more like the iconic images in the antique maps. “All of these story notes and character notes help us to better choose shapes and ...

But there is one tradition that hasn’t lived on: his inclusion of sea monsters on nearly every map. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is unique for its collection of maps organized geographically ...

Alex Clausen, a San Diego-based map dealer and the president of Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc., discovered ... ships and sometimes even sea monsters. Clausen was scrolling through ...

In the introduction to his opulently illustrated volume Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, published in June, Chet Van Duzer writes of these cartographic creatures, “Curiously ...

Chet Van Duzer has spent a lot of time hunting sea monsters. Combing through centuries-old maps in libraries and museums around the world, he's found and studied scores of strange creatures that ...

but Kim said the map is believed to be the oldest among antique maps bearing the name "Sea of Joseon." Kim also said that scholars believe the map must have been based on the 1602 World Map drawn ...