The French Crown paid little attention to the St. Lawrence and northeast North America after the failure of Jacques Cartier's settlement at Kébec/Québec (1535-41). The fishermen and fur trappers continued on their annual migrations to the St. Lawre...
There was much debate in Europe during the sixteenth century as geographers tried to incorporate the Americas within their existing world-view. Were they the islands off eastern Asia as Christopher Columbus had presumed (1) ? Or did they constitute a...
Support for this exhibition has been provided by generous gifts from Bernard and Barbro Osher, Sam L. Cohen, Peter and Paula Lunder, Peoples Heritage Bank, Scitex America Corporation, and Union Oil Company.This Exhibition was curated by Dr. Harold L....
Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye that love her! Join in her jubilation, all ye that mourn for her. ... For thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will extend prosperity to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like a flowing strea...
This city of Jerusalem I have set in the midst of nations, with other countries round about her. [Ezekiel 5:5]Since Jerusalem was located near the middle of the known world of antiquity, it naturally occupied a central position on early world maps. D...
Walk about Zion, and go round about it . . . [Psalms 48:13]In a sense, Abraham's journey to the Promised Land was the first religious pilgrimage. Among the places he visited was Salem, the future site of Jerusalem. With the bringing of the Holy Ark t...
Ten measures of beauty descended to the world; nine were taken by Jerusalem and one by the rest of the world. [Babylonian Talmud: Kidushin 49b]"Perched on its eternal hills," wrote Mark Twain in Innocents Abroad (1867), "white and domed and solid, ma...
For out of Zion shall go forth the Law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. [Isaiah 2:3]On a crude altar in Jerusalem, Abraham, Patriarch of three great monotheistic religions, undertook to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, in accordance with God...
Mark ye well her ramparts . . . [Psalms 48:14]Jerusalem occupies an important position in the history of cartography. The Bible tells us that the city was first mapped in response to a divine command to the Prophet Ezekiel: "Thou also, son of man, ta...
If I forget thee O Jerusalem, let my right hand lose her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy. [Psalms 137:5-6]Maps contribute greatly to the understanding of h...
