A is for Atlas: Wonders of Maps and Mapping

The world as a jester, the unseen effects of comets, non-existent islands, the secrets of the stars, make up a richly decorated compendium of maps from the National Maritime Museum.It’s a book that opens with a globe, of the earth, but one that was repainted in 1909 to show the landscape of Mars, with its seas and canals, as they were thought at the time. But it went beyond the simple recording of what could be seen, as the artist, Ingeborg Brun also gave places names invoking a mix of her