In collaboration with the Zurich Central Library (Zurich Map Center), the ETH Library presents a selection of older and more recent world maps and provides insight into their origins and significance.

Meeting point: ETH Library Main Building, H Floor, Circulation Desk

Illustration: “World Map in Mercator’s Projection,” from: Meyer, Hermann Julius (ed.): “Large Pocket Atlas of All Parts of the Earth in 170 Maps,” Hildburghausen: Bibliographisches Institut, [1860].