The trees here tower a hundred feet above the forest floor — a ceiling as high as in prehistory and vanishingly rare today. That’s because no logger’s axe has ever touched these woods. The ‘Lost Forty’: how a mapping error preserved an old-growth forest
The Swiss are not known for their sense of humor, but perhaps we’ve not been looking hard enough.Over the decades, Swiss cartographers have sprinkled plenty of « Easter eggs » across otherwise serious maps. Lire la suite ici : Why Swiss maps are full of hidden secrets
2Tout d’abord, les premières cartes opiciniennes publiées – celles qui figurent dans l’édition en 1936 par Richard Salomon du manuscrit Palatinus latinus 1993 de la Bibliothèque apostolique vaticane1, ne sont pas chronologiquement les premières réalisées par leur auteur. Les cartes anthropomorphes d’Opicinus de Canistris (1337)