Cosmographic Atlas

Eclipses, comets and tides share the pages with the fall of the Roman Empire in these antique maps from the Cosmographic Atl...

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Eclipses, comets and tides share the pages with the fall of the Roman Empire in these antique maps from the Cosmographic Atlas, published by W. & A. K. Johnston in Edinburgh and London, with material dated 1885–1887 and a third edition identified in 1887. The atlas covered physical, classical and scriptural geography as well as the political world of its day. Diagrams explain the seasons, thematic maps show rainfall, religion and the ethnographic categories of Victorian reference books, and historical sheets reconstruct biblical lands and the Roman world beside contemporary maps of countries and colonies.

Eclipses, comets and tides share the pages with the fall of the Roman Empire in these antique maps from the Cosmographic Atlas, published by W. & A. K. Johnston in Edinburgh and London, with material dated 1885–1887 and a third edition identified in 1887. The atlas covered physical, classical and scriptural geography as well as the political world of its day. Diagrams explain the seasons, thematic maps show rainfall, religion and the ethnographic categories of Victorian reference books, and historical sheets reconstruct biblical lands and the Roman world beside contemporary maps of countries and colonies.

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