{"id":3354,"date":"2011-04-15T13:16:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T19:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mulibraries.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2011-04-15T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T19:16:07","slug":"russian-maps-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2011\/04\/15\/russian-maps-on-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Maps on Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mulibraries.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/G6520-1669-B5-Map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3355\" title=\"G6520 1669 B5 Map\" src=\"http:\/\/mulibraries.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/G6520-1669-B5-Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2011\/04\/G6520-1669-B5-Map.jpg 500w, https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2011\/04\/G6520-1669-B5-Map-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twelve rare Russian maps from the Special Collections are exhibited in the colonnade area. The<br \/>\nearliest map, published in 1595, is the work of a famous Flemish cartographer, mathematician, and<br \/>\ngeographer Gerhard Mercator, who invented the projection that bears his name and coined the word<br \/>\n\u201catlas\u201d to refer to a book of maps. The latest among the exhibited maps is the map of <strong>The Whole<br \/>\nRussian Empire<\/strong> published by Robert Sayer on March 2, 1772. It was reproduced from the earlier<br \/>\noriginal crafted by\u00a0<strong>Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d&#8217;Anville<\/strong> (1697 \u20131782), perhaps the greatest<br \/>\nFrench cartographer and geographical author of the eighteenth century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve rare Russian maps from the Special Collections are exhibited in the colonnade area. The earliest map, published in 1595, is the work of a famous Flemish cartographer, mathematician, and geographer Gerhard Mercator, who invented the projection that bears his<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2011\/04\/15\/russian-maps-on-display\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian Maps on Display<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-collections"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 07:54:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}