You ’ve take in city maps , but what about city maps that show where each crew has its HQ ? Or a map of the ball without water ? Here are a few of our pet willy-nilly eccentric single-valued function .
A Map Of Chicago’s Gangland, 1931
( viaUniversity Of Illinois Library )
The Ebstorf Map, from the late 13th century
This mappa mundi ( a chivalric European function of the world ) was made by Gervase of Ebstorf in the 1290s , was found in Ebstorf , Germany in 1843 . It ’s made of goatskins ( thirty of them ! ) instead of newspaper , and measure 12 ft x 12 ft ( 3.6 x 3.6 m ) . alas it was destroy during the bombing of Hannover in 1943 , but there are some surviving black and white photographs and color facsimile .
( viaWikimedia Commons )
World Map Drawn in a Fool’s Head, by an unknown artist, c. 1590
Legend in the left says : “ Democritus of Abdera laughed at [ the world ] , Heraclitus of Ephesus cry over it , Epichtonius Cosmopolites portrayed it . ”
( viaBigThink )
World without water, Willelm & Jan Goeree, c. 1690
( viaOld World Auctions )
Map of Jiangxi Province, China, c. 1700
( viaBritish Library )
Image of the Very Famous Island of Fool’s Head, published in Amsterdam, 1720
The cities have evidence names : Bedriegers Stadt ( “ Charlatan City ” ) , Leugenburg ( “ Lie Town ” ) , Sottenburg ( “ Crazy Town ” ) , Bederfwyk ( “ corrupted Quarter ” ) , and the islands are Poverty ( Armoed ) , Sadness ( Droefhyt ) and Despair ( Wanhoop ) .
A new Map of England and France, 1793
The French Invasion or John Bull Bombarding the Bum - Boats .
( viaBig Think )
The eagle map of the United States; Engraved for Rudiments of national knowledge, by I. W. Moore, 1833
( viaLibrary Of Congress )
Geographical fun: being humorous outlines of various countries with an introduction and descriptive line, by “Aleph” (William Harvey), London, 1868
Serio-comic war map for the year 1877 ,by Fred W. Rose, 1877
This map gives a satiric conclusion of the events of 1877 . Twenty - five years after the idea of the Octopus Map was used again by some Japanese artists , before the Russo - Japanese War in 1904 - 1905 :
( viaZelvin KaterinkaandCandaces Maps )
Unknown: Map of Midtown Manhattan, from 34th Street to 59th Street and from 1st Avenue to 6th Avenue, 1890
( viaOld York Library )
The Pulse Of New York, by Howard P. Taylor, c. 1891
The Contiguous United States – visualized by distance to the nearest McDonald’s, 2009
Created by Stephen Von Worley , using data from AggData .
( viaHuffington Post )
Map of Literary Britain and Northern Ireland by Geoff Sawers
It features 188 of the most famous writers .
( viaThe Literary Gift Company )
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