August 23, 2021

Reworking the Founding Disciplinary Narrative along Cognitive Lines

August 23, 2021/ Matthew Edney

Henry Castner and Barbara Petchenik Reconfigure Arthur Robinson’s History of Cartography

August 20, 2021

Some Thoughts on Jacques Bertin’s “[Carto]graphic Semiology”

August 20, 2021/ Matthew Edney

Perhaps a “hot take”

July 21, 2021

More on the Fetishization of Triangulation (and on the Possible Schizophrenia of Recent Map History)

July 21, 2021/ Matthew Edney

Jean Picard’s “Corrected Map of France” was not by triangulation …

July 14, 2021

Triangulation ... it's not just "doing things with triangles"

July 14, 2021/ Matthew Edney

I’m a bit of a purist on the matter

June 30, 2021

Modern Histories of Geodesy and Surveying

June 30, 2021/ Matthew Edney

An overview

June 28, 2021

Suppositions of Location and of Similitude

June 28, 2021/ Matthew Edney

Key principles in the assessment of old maps

June 23, 2021

Origins of Map Libraries in the mid-Nineteenth Century

June 23, 2021/ Matthew Edney

A brief summary, with references

May 18, 2021

An Early Color Facsimile: Hand-Applied or Printed?

May 18, 2021/ Matthew Edney

A curious 1856 facsimile of the map of the east coast of Jave-le-grand from the 1547 Vallard Atlas

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!

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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