cosmography

A devoted cartographer of Heaven and Earth, William Fairfield Warren of Boston University mapped out in 1915, his last work after earnestly sourcing Paradise Found to the North Pole, the Universe according to John Milton’s Paradise Lost (previously here and here), extracting, teasing the subtle cartography of Eden and Hell and empyrean Heaven out of the epic poem overlaid with terrestrial correspondence (see also) with a rigour that indeed makes the accounting of angels dancing on the head of a pin an academic exercise. Thinking that there a possibility for bias and that illustrations were imperfect and prejudicial, Warren paired his diagrams back for a straightforward T-O map (orbis terrarium) look but there are more elaborate depictions of Miltonic cosmology from contemporaries at Public Domain Review at the link up top for comparison.