Map symbols show what can be found in an area. Each feature of the landscape has a different symbol. Contour lines are lines that join up areas of equal height on a map. By looking at how far ...

Jonah being cast overboard to the sea monster, from Ortelius’s map of the Holy Land in his Theatrum orbis terrarum. A siren admires herself in a mirror, a symbol of vanity, near a ship on Pierre ...