Take Antwerp’s 1565 city map by Virgilius Bononiensis ... Unlike today’s turn-by-turn navigation, a 16th-century GPS might have been all about survival: avoiding bandit-prone roads, timing ...

The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama’s first voyage in search of a sea route to India (1497-99) and the “discovery ...

Later, a papyrus scroll would have done the trick. And by the 16th century, the first world maps had started to appear. Maps have been part of human history for millennia, and the development of ...