Development of Maps

Today's lecture focussed on the development of maps over time. We looked at Jan Visscher's map of London, a panoramic view of what he thought London would look like around the 1600's. Today's culture shows how we use simple lines and colours to code certain aspects of a map or area compared to the developed detailed pieces of work that used to be created, work like Visscher. We were shown a video, "The Power of Ten, a dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding zero" which showed how places look from above, ariel shots.

Image, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visscher_panorama