Bellin Map – Carte de la Petite Bukharie Central Asia, China, Gobi Desert 1757 This Jacques Nicolas Bellin map of Little Bochara, names the surrounding regions of Western Tartary, Eluths, China and the Gobi Desert. Major rivers, lakes and mountain ranges, are shown. The map shows part of the Great [continue reading]
Bertius Map of Bengal, India 1603 – Bengala Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University in Holland. He is known for his miniature world atlas ‘Tabularum geographicarum contractarum’. Although not an actual mapmaker himself, Bertius’s text was embellished with maps from the foremost engravers of [continue reading]