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Mapping as Process is an unashamedly academic space in which to explore a new approach to mapping and its history. The exploration will eventually contribute to a book of the same name.

Mapping as Process
The First International Map of the World?
Dec 19

Dec 19 The First International Map of the World?

Matthew Edney

A wildly ambitious attempt in 1794 to create a massively detailed, systematic atlas of the whole world

A Misunderstood Quatrain
Dec 15

Dec 15 A Misunderstood Quatrain

Matthew Edney

We Should Get over Ourselves

A partial, essentialist, and incorrect etymology for “map”
Nov 29

Nov 29 A partial, essentialist, and incorrect etymology for “map”

Matthew Edney
Update re "Cartography: The Ideal and Its History"
Oct 2

Oct 2 Update re "Cartography: The Ideal and Its History"

Matthew Edney

I can haz a pretty cover! And you can pre-order the book, too!!!!

The Limits to Mapping
Oct 2

Oct 2 The Limits to Mapping

Matthew Edney

The video of my talk last week at Yale

USGS Printing Techniques
Sep 4

Sep 4 USGS Printing Techniques

Matthew Edney

Testing more assumptions about printing processes

The Materiality of Maps
Aug 17

Aug 17 The Materiality of Maps

Matthew Edney

Script of my July 2018 lecture to the Rare Book School, University of Virginia

The Cartographic Ideal’s Preconception of Pictorialness
Jul 8

Jul 8 The Cartographic Ideal’s Preconception of Pictorialness

Matthew Edney

An 1820s schoolchild’s conflation of geography and mimesis

A Flat Earth?
Jun 28

Jun 28 A Flat Earth?

Matthew Edney
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