May 05, 2021

New short publication

May 05, 2021/ Matthew Edney

I wrote the Last Word column for the latest issue of Library of Congress Magazine, which is all about maps!

April 21, 2021

Wikipedia's Absurdist Taxonomy of Map Types

April 21, 2021/ Matthew Edney

A classification of maps worthy of Jorge Luis Borges !!

April 05, 2021

Cognitive Maps in Bemazed Rats, and Humans

April 05, 2021/ Matthew Edney

How the Cartographic Ideal shaped Tolman’s (1948) interpretations of the nature of human spatial cognition

March 22, 2021

Death to Cartography!

March 22, 2021/ Matthew Edney

A new podcast on “Undisciplined”

March 18, 2021

Winther "When Maps Become the World" (2020)

March 18, 2021/ Matthew Edney

The review …

March 13, 2021

From an Art to Science (How Mapping Acquired Its Fiber)

March 13, 2021/ Matthew Edney

An Early, Popular, Pictorial Statement of the Romance of Old Maps

February 21, 2021

Perfecting the World Map?

February 21, 2021/ Matthew Edney

On Ideas and Measures of "Distortion" and the Recent Claims Made for a Two-Sided Hemispheric Projection

February 17, 2021

A “Radically Different” World Map?

February 17, 2021/ Matthew Edney

Not actually so different, after all. A mindboggling, gobsmacking claim!

January 31, 2021

Irene Jean Curnow (active 1921–30)

January 31, 2021/ Matthew Edney

Forgotten Internal Map Historian

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 …

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.