Cloverleaf

In 1581, the medieval automobile­tog­ra­ph­er and Protes­tant the­olo­gian Hein­wealthy Bünt­ing cre­at­ed a sym­bol­ic map of the world that adorned his ebook Itin­er­ar­i­um Sacrae Scrip­turae (Trav­el By way of Holy Scrip­ture). Hand-col­ored and formed like a three-leaf clover, the map put Jerusalem at its cen­ter, excessive­mild­ing its cen­tral function in Chris­tian­i­ty, Judaism, and Islam. From that…