Cartographer’s Dream

E 12° — SKYWARD

Cities, Globes & the Heavens

The voyage's end and lift — a bird's-eye city, the globe unpeeling into gores, and the sky opening above.

Civitates Orbis Terrarum — Civitates Orbis Terrarum (a city plate), Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg, 1572–1617

1572–1617

Civitates Orbis Terrarum

A great city, seen from the air before flight.

Coronelli's Globe Gores — Printed globe gores, Vincenzo Coronelli, c. 1690s

c. 1690s

Coronelli's Globe Gores

A globe, unpeeled and laid flat.

A Celestial Hemisphere — Harmonia Macrocosmica, Andreas Cellarius, 1660

1660

A Celestial Hemisphere

The night sky, as a Baroque masterpiece.