From gigantic hanging tapestries to small pocket globes, the Ashmolean covers a whole range of navigational equipment. In the second of our Random Walks films featuring mathematicians let loose in the Ashmolean Museum, Vicky Neale from Oxford Mathematics demonstrates that she knows her place in the world. Through interactive examples that can be imitated at home, Vicky demonstrates the difficulties that cartographers have faced throughout the centuries.

 

 

 

 

 

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