Interpreting the great continent of “Jave le grande” to deride James Cook.

Before Buckminster Fuller and Bernard Cahill and their angular, fragmented world maps, there was Richard A. Proctor and his Star Atlas (1870), New Star Atlas (1874), and Student’s Atlas (1889)

These are not as straightforward questions as they might seem (and certainly as I had always been led to believe!)

on the practices (plural!) of studying early maps before 1800 and before the emergence of any systematic field of "map history"

Reflections on shifting contemporary and historiographic attitudes towards these oversized globes

Some thoughts stemming from viewing the Musée des arts de la marionette in Lyon.

A bit more on why British engineers would adopt the numerical ratio (1:x) of “map scale” later in the nineteenth century

A new page on this web site for biographical details of the people I’ve been writing about as map historians and map scholars.

I have been having great fun reading F V Botley’s 1952 MA thesis on patterns of usage of world map projections in USA and UK, 1850–1950