March 09, 2019

More FErs

March 09, 2019/ Matthew Edney

A brief review of the Netflix documentary

March 03, 2019

Pocket globes "in the wild"

March 03, 2019/ Matthew Edney

Musical theater and maps …

December 19, 2018

The First International Map of the World?

December 19, 2018/ Matthew Edney

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

December 15, 2018

A Misunderstood Quatrain

December 15, 2018/ Matthew Edney

We Should Get over Ourselves

November 29, 2018

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

November 29, 2018/ Matthew Edney

An intriguing definition of “the map” that does not work.

October 02, 2018

Update re "Cartography: The Ideal and Its History"

October 02, 2018/ Matthew Edney

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

October 02, 2018

The Limits to Mapping

October 02, 2018/ Matthew Edney

The video of my talk last week at Yale

September 04, 2018

USGS Printing Techniques

September 04, 2018/ Matthew Edney

Testing more assumptions about printing processes

August 17, 2018

The Materiality of Maps

August 17, 2018/ Matthew Edney

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

Mapping as Process

Mapping as Process is a space for me to explore a new approach to understanding mapping and its history. The exploration will eventually contribute to a book of the same name.

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The books …

Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”: Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations in Brill Research Perspectives on Map History. Available from Brill in print and as an ebook ($87).

Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume Four of The History of Cartography, edited by myself and Mary Pedley. Available from the University of Chicago Press, in print and ebook ($500).

Available from the University of Chicago Press in paperback ($30), e-book ($10–30), or cloth ($90).

Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.

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