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If you would like to activate the timeline feature: select "Neatline" from the dashboard view find your exhibit, click on "exhibit settings" click in the "Widgets" field, select "SIMILE Timeline" save exhibit

You will most likely want to add an image to the "body" of the record. First, activate the html editing mode: The html editing box will open. Place your cursor where you would like the image to appear, and click on the image icon: Plug in the URL…

Vespucci also adds some more figurative items to the map that give a different sort of information to the viewer. Most notable are the two man-made structures shown (completely out of scale), the 'Castelo de Lamina' in West Africa and the small fort…

This layer consists of the boundaries of the Arrondissements (administrative districts of Paris), the Murs d’Octroi, which marked the edges of Paris, and the towns of the surrounding area, which are named but not circumscribed. The names of towns are…

First meteorological map, charting the directions of trade winds and monsoons. Information was collected from navigators familiar with ocean transits, and also from his own tropical experience on St. Helena (1677–1678). On the map, rows of brief…