Christof Friedrich Goldbach’s white-on-black star charts

Boring maps ... and maps of boring places ... are to be savored!

...or at least towards being precise about this nebulous feature

... that the people to whom I react were themselves reacting to the know-nothingness of their predecessors.

How I came to be a map historian; memories prompted by looking at maps.

Mark Twain—known for his writing—also made this absurdist map of Paris in 1870.

The script of my presentation to the 19th Nebenzahl Lectures, 27 October 2016.

An argument for discarding an undertheorized concept and for replacing it with the mode of “analytic" mapping

Or, why I distrust analyses based on map form or content alone