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Earth Platinum. Earth Platinum, published by Millennium House in 2012, [1] is the world's largest atlas at 6 ft × 4.5 ft (1.8 m × 1.4 m). It surpasses the famous Klencke Atlas at the British Library, which held the record of the world's largest atlas since 1660. [2]
Times Atlas of the World. The Times Atlas of the World, rebranded The Times Atlas of the World: Comprehensive Edition in its 11th edition and The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World from its 12th edition, is a world atlas currently published by HarperCollins Publisher L.L.C. Its most recent edition, the sixteenth, was published on October ...
Pergamon World Atlas. The Pergamon World Atlas is an English-language world atlas published in 1968 by Pergamon Press. The atlas is based on maps prepared by the Polish Army Topographical Service and published in 1962 as the Atlas Świata (World Atlas). [1]
The Klencke Atlas, first published in 1660, is one of the world's largest atlases. [ 1] Originating in The Netherlands, it is 1.75 metres (5 ft 9 in) tall by 1.9 metres (6 ft 3 in) wide when open, [ 2] and so heavy the British Library needed six people to carry it. [ 1]
The DK Atlas of World History is a historical atlas first published in 1999 by Dorling Kindersley. A second edition, titled the DK World History Atlas, was published in 2005. Both were produced under the general editorship of Jeremy Black, with the slogan "Mapping the human journey". The atlas covers a period of 20,000 years, from the emergence ...
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Latin: [tʰɛˈaːtrũː ˈɔrbɪs tɛˈrːaːrũː], "Theatre of the Lands of the World") is considered to be the first true modern atlas.Written by Abraham Ortelius, strongly encouraged by Gillis Hooftman [2] and originally printed on 20 May 1570 in Antwerp, [3] it consisted of a collection of uniform map sheets and supporting text bound to form a book for which ...
The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World is a large-format English language atlas of ancient Europe, Asia, and North Africa, edited by Richard J. A. Talbert. The time period depicted is roughly from archaic Greek civilization (pre-550 BC) through Late Antiquity (640 AD). The atlas was published by Princeton University Press in 2000.
Atlas. Frontispiece of the 1595 Atlas of Mercator. An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a continent or region of Earth . Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today, many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geographical features and political boundaries ...