A blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption
And not just PowerPoint: Google Slides, Apple’s Keynote, Open/LibreOffice’s Impress, etc. are all great tools for showing images of maps in presentations, as long as some basic rules are followed!
Read MoreOn the origins of “cartobibliography” (a word I want to discard) in the work of Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis in the 1830s and 1840s
Read MoreAn eighteenth-century German post-road map which really surprised me last week, because of the manner in which its 16 plates were printed.
Read MoreOn the use and production of copies for map historical research, both manuscript and printed.
Read More…. that seems not to want to even hint at religious causes for flat-earth beliefs.
Read MoreHow map history has been (barely) supported by the IGU
Read MoreA 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!)
Read MoreStudying not the particular maps and their histories (that’s been done) but rather the significance of the structuring of of a composite atlas
Read MoreMapping 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.
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).
Available from my bibliography
Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.
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