Infinite Perspectives: Two Thousand Years of Three-Dimensional Mapmaking - Includes 3-D Glasses

Whether from military necessity or unbridled curiosity, mapmakers since early antiquity have attempted to represent the configuration of the land about them. The Greeks paid homage to the landscape and stuck its image on their coins. Medieval scholars viewed the highest elevations as a boundary between the physical and the spiritual; the images they created of their sacred shrines and historic sites were drawn atop simple caricatures of mountains. Leonardo da Vincis maps of Tuscany and other mor…