…. that seems not to want to even hint at religious causes for flat-earth beliefs.

How map history has been (barely) supported by the IGU

A piece of bad popular map history suggests that people can have quite misleading concepts about Gerardus Mercator and indeed about the nature of maps and mapping (hint: he did NOT make the map shown at left, his son Rumold did!)

(and some missed from 2020)

Studying not the particular maps and their histories (that’s been done) but rather the significance of the structuring of of a composite atlas

A new essay

A letter explaining the manner in which an eighteen-century mega-collector wishes to organize and index his huge map collection.

I find a modern rendition of William Hubbard’s map of New England, published in two variants in Boston and London in 1677, rather upsetting.

A 1906 map of Beverly Hills subdivision in the shape of a woman!