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Discovering Braun and Hogenberg's city map of Constantinople
A short film that explores the significance of Braun and Hogenberg's map of Constaninople, a copperplate in an illustrated atlas of city views.
Denis Lawson explains how this historical map changed the way we saw the world, bringing knowledge and understanding of international cities to a 16th century European audience.
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