Tim Dowley Historical Atlas's Quite Good

https://www.logos.com/products/search?q=dowley+title%3aatlas

There's two. The Christian history one shipped today. It was good so I bought the other too.

I made this thread mainly for map enthusiasts, though each map has quite a bit of text discussion.

The titles don't quite nail down what is in which. For example, China is mainly in the Christian history one, but Japan is in the Reformation one. Go figure, but nice maps for both. Of course lots of Europe.

There's quite a number of North American maps which is really interesting. Fortress Press 2015-16.

For anyone familiar with Japan, Hideyoshki slipped in ... At least Ieyasu was spelled right.

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Beloved Amodeo

I made this thread mainly for map enthusiasts, though each map has quite a bit of text discussion.

Would you post an excerpt?

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885521#Comment_885521

If you're interested in something specific, let me know. This one is interesting (another thread notes the tiny text on maps):

Beloved Amodeo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885522#Comment_885522

Thanks Denise, looks like it's well worth the money!

Ted Weis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885524#Comment_885524

The maps on both resources are very detailed. If you will teaching on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, these two are indispensable for PowerPoint presentations.

Mark Smith

This will be a valuable resource. The maps are large and clear. The text, while brief, is adequate to understand each map and to allow further study. Those without much knowledge of church history may be disappointed that there isn't more 'history' in this atlas, but used as a geographic reference to church history it will be quite helpful. I don't know anything else quite like it.

I'd give this one 5 stars. [Y]

Veli Voipio

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885569#Comment_885569

The maps on both resources are very detailed. If you will teaching on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, these two are indispensable for PowerPoint presentations.

I agree. Though Finland is in the margin in most maps related to Europe, but that's it.[:(]

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Not only this one, but generally most maps about early Christian history are unaware of the Middle East. One good map is in Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakhmids#/media/File:NE_565ad.jpg where the areas of Lakhmids and Ghassanids are shown.

They were to some degree Christian kingdoms and some speculate that Islam developed from that context.

DAL

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885609#Comment_885609

What was the prepup price on these?

DAL

Mattillo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885631#Comment_885631

$14.99 was the prepub for both

DAL

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885638#Comment_885638

$14.99 was the prepub for both

Thanks! I'm glad they didn't go up that much. I'll probably get them both with my b-day credit (if they still offer it by May).

DAL

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885609#Comment_885609

The maps on both resources are very detailed. If you will teaching on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, these two are indispensable for PowerPoint presentations.

I agree. Though Finland is in the margin in most maps related to Europe, but that's it.

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Not only this one, but generally most maps about early Christian history are unaware of the Middle East. One good map is in Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakhmids#/media/File:NE_565ad.jpg where the areas of Lakhmids and Ghassanids are shown.

They were to some degree Christian kingdoms and some speculate that Islam developed from that context.

I must confess, I'm not sure where the Finnish reindeer herds end, and Russia begins (without a map). p85 seems to accidentally cover a section of Finland. Maybe.

It's not too hard to find 'not quite true' portions of the maps. But most seem well researched. The New Mexico missions seems like just one more 'grab' from the overly zealous Texans. Maybe Tim is from Texas.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/885706#Comment_885706

I put this here, for any later Dowley Atlas queriers.

1. In the mobile apps, the cities and labels (on the maps) are active, such that a long-press (equiv of rgt-clik) will generate a copyable popup.

2. On the desktop, the same group (cities, etc on the maps) can be searched. This is handy when dealing with the various events. I was surprised with Shizuoka.

3. Similarly, on the desktop, you can use the NEAR verb for locations in the same map. Not sure why you'd want that, but it illustrates how it's coded.

4. You can drag and drop the map locations, illustrating they're active text. Dropping over a text object changes the icon (as expected), but the text object doesn't respond to the event.