History of Cartography

Razón Cartografica
Razón Cartografica’s aim is to promote the history of geography and cartography in Colombia and Latin America. The first issue of its bulletin is here; there’s also a blog. In Spanish, of course, so I can’t say much more about… »
Posted on Friday, August 1, 2008 at 8:54 PM
Categories: Blogs, History of Cartography
Review: Rhumb Lines and Map Wars
Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection by Mark Monmonier University of Chicago Press, 2004. Hardcover, 238 pp. ISBN 0-226-53431-6 Rhumb Lines and Map Wars is Mark Monmonier’s response to the controversy over the Mercator… »
Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 5:23 PM
Categories: Book Reviews, History of Cartography, Map Projections
The History of Cartography in a Nutshell
The History of Cartography in a Nutshell, an astonishing single-paragraph article by Professor Vladimiro Valerio. From the introductory editor’s note: “About five years ago Professor Valerio was asked to prepare a short article on the history of cartography for a… »
Posted on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 8:08 AM
Categories: History of Cartography
2007 Sandars Lectures: Sarah Tyacke
The 2007 Sandars Lectures, Conversations with Maps: World Views in Early Modern Europe, were given by Sarah Tyacke last March; the text of her three lectures, and accompanying slides, are now available online as PDF files. Via MapHist…. »
Posted on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Categories: History of Cartography, Talks & Presentations
Mapping Colonial Conquest
The South African Mail and Guardian reviews a collection of essays edited by Norman Etherington, Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa: “By probing the ‘secret histories’ encoded in maps, which continue to influence the political, legal, social and… »
Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 9:21 AM
Categories: Books, History of Cartography
Schwartz Collection Exhibition Opens Monday
Seymour I. Schwartz, author of five books on the history of cartography,* is pledging his collection to the University of Virginia, which, in turn, is naming its map room in his honour today. About 50 of those 225 maps… »
Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 4:44 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions, History of Cartography
Annotated Bibliography on the History of Cartography
I’ve been spending some time reading through Matthew Edney’s annotated bibliography of scholarly literature on the history of cartography; a new revision went online at the Coordinates web site last week. The list is bigger than some of my comprehensive… »
Posted on Sunday, April 15, 2007 at 10:10 PM
Categories: Books, History of Cartography, Scholarly Journals
History of Cartography Bibliography
Map historian Peter van der Krogt has compiled a database of articles on the history of cartography from scholarly journals. “Originally that was intended for private use as an list of the articles in my own library. Later I started… »
Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 at 9:05 AM
Categories: History of Cartography
History of Cartography Tutorial
A tutorial on the history of cartography from professors at the University of Passau. A slide-based general overview, originally in German but translated into several other languages including English; some sections aren’t yet complete. It ends too soon: in the… »
Posted on Monday, July 3, 2006 at 6:30 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, History of Cartography
Swiss Journal and Conference on the History of Cartography
Thomas Klöti passes on links to the home pages of the Swiss-based Cartographica Helvetica, a German-language journal about the history of cartography, and the forthcoming International Conference on the History of Cartography, which takes place in Berne in July 2007…. »
Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 10:58 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Conferences, History of Cartography, Scholarly Journals
History of Cartography Project Co-Founder Dies
Last December, I reported on the massive History of Cartography Project, an expensive, comprehensive multivolume series, the first volume of which came out in 1987. The project was founded by J. B. Harley and David Woodward. Harley died in 1991…. »
Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 10:04 PM
Categories: Books, History of Cartography, Obituaries

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