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Mapping as Process

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Mapping as Process

A blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption

Mapping as Process

Mapping as Process

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September 26, 2020

Small Piece Published re Maine Mapping Exhibition

September 26, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Small Piece Published re Maine Mapping Exhibition

… in Calafia, the journal of the California Map Society

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September 26, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
September 24, 2020

Interview with Mary and me about Volume Four

September 24, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Interview with Mary and me about Volume Four

… at The Learned Pig

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September 24, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
September 12, 2020

I Have Located a Town ...

September 12, 2020/ Matthew Edney
I Have Located a Town ...

Depicted in an anonymous plan of timber and land quality, having been misled by a stupid error on the map!

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September 12, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
September 09, 2020

"Mapping Maine" is up and ready to visit

September 09, 2020/ Matthew Edney
"Mapping Maine" is up and ready to visit

OML’s exhibition for the Maine bicentnnial is finally done!

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September 09, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
August 26, 2020

River Names

August 26, 2020/ Matthew Edney
River Names

A Question of Whose Ontological Consistency

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August 19, 2020

A Little-Known Facsimile

August 19, 2020/ Matthew Edney
A Little-Known Facsimile

Ramón de la Sagra’s facsimile of Juan de la Cosa’s depiction of the New World in 1500

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August 16, 2020

An Early Narrative of Map History

August 16, 2020/ Matthew Edney
An Early Narrative of Map History

Rufus Blanchard’s Historical Map of the United States (1876)

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August 13, 2020

Rehabilitating “Historical Map”

August 13, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Rehabilitating “Historical Map”

It’s time to end a confusing prescription good only for academic gate-keeping

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July 28, 2020

The Venetian Discovery of the New World before Columbus?

July 28, 2020/ Matthew Edney
The Venetian Discovery of the New World before Columbus?

The 1783 Arguments of Vincenzio Antonio Formaleoni

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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 July 2025, in print and ebook ($87).

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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).

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

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

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