Imago Mundi is a peer-reviewed

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 academic journal

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 founded in 1935 by Leo Bagrow

Leo Bagrow

Leo Bagrow , born Lev Semenovich Bagrow, was a historian of cartography and the founder of the journal Imago Mundi.-External Links:* at , Harvard University...

. It is the only English-language scholarly periodical exclusively devoted to the history of early maps, cartography, and map-related ideas. The full-length articles, although in English, have abstracts in French

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, German

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, Spanish

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, and English. Each volume also contains three reference sections (book reviews, bibliography, and chronicle) that provide a summary of current developments in the field.