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May 2025
- May 19, 2025 A Cautionary Tale: Misreading the Palimpsest (Meitzen, Maitland, Bateson, Darby) May 19, 2025
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March 2025
- Mar 30, 2025 A New Essay on Single-Volume "Histories of Cartography" Mar 30, 2025
- Mar 30, 2025 A Response to Denil's Accusations Mar 30, 2025
- Mar 7, 2025 Arnold Heeren’s 1804 Prospectus for a “History of Geographical Maps” Mar 7, 2025
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February 2025
- Feb 26, 2025 Materiality and the Limits of Internet Research: The “Borgia Map” and Its Facsimiles Feb 26, 2025
- Feb 26, 2025 Listen to a Map Podcast, with me! Feb 26, 2025
- Feb 13, 2025 An oceanic image that is a map, not a chart Feb 13, 2025
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December 2024
- Dec 19, 2024 2024 Books in Map History, plus some I missed from 2023 Dec 19, 2024
- Dec 16, 2024 Another flat earth thingy ... Dec 16, 2024
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November 2024
- Nov 11, 2024 Alexander Dalrymple’s Spiteful Innovation in Map History Nov 11, 2024
- Nov 3, 2024 The First Unorthodox, Modernist Mapping of the World? Nov 3, 2024
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October 2024
- Oct 9, 2024 Size Matters: Why Do We Measure the Size of Maps, and How? Oct 9, 2024
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September 2024
- Sep 24, 2024 New Essay Sep 24, 2024
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July 2024
- Jul 21, 2024 The Uselessness of Coronelli’s Great Globes of 1681–83 Jul 21, 2024
- Jul 8, 2024 Some Parallels between Puppetry and the Nature of Mapping and Map Studies Jul 8, 2024
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June 2024
- Jun 13, 2024 A confusion of “natural” expressions of map scale Jun 13, 2024
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March 2024
- Mar 12, 2024 Who were the map historians? Mar 12, 2024
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February 2024
- Feb 1, 2024 A fugitive history of world map projections, found! Feb 1, 2024
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January 2024
- Jan 23, 2024 Arno Peters and his Map Work Jan 23, 2024
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December 2023
- Dec 21, 2023 Map History Books of 2023 Dec 21, 2023
- Dec 1, 2023 A Pageant of Spectacles: Chromolithography in America Dec 1, 2023
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September 2023
- Sep 12, 2023 An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland Sep 12, 2023
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August 2023
- Aug 30, 2023 Cartography in the European Enlightenment is now online ... Aug 30, 2023
- Aug 29, 2023 New Essay Published (with download link) Aug 29, 2023
- Aug 15, 2023 New Book Chapter Aug 15, 2023
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March 2023
- Mar 19, 2023 New England Prospect: An Innovative Map Exhibition from 1980 Mar 19, 2023
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February 2023
- Feb 23, 2023 Identifying Map Projections ... Feb 23, 2023
- Feb 17, 2023 The History of Cartography at MoMA, 1943 Feb 17, 2023
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January 2023
- Jan 30, 2023 Collection of Essays on the History of Map Collecting just Published Jan 30, 2023
- Jan 26, 2023 Onto Mastodon ... Jan 26, 2023
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December 2022
- Dec 30, 2022 And a Podcast re Cullum's 1836 Map of Portland Dec 30, 2022
- Dec 30, 2022 Two New Things re "Cartography" and "Map" in the Latest Cartographic Perspectives Dec 30, 2022
- Dec 16, 2022 Map History Books Published in 2022 Dec 16, 2022
- Dec 9, 2022 I'm Quitting Twitter Dec 9, 2022
- Dec 6, 2022 The Perils of Literality Dec 6, 2022
- Dec 3, 2022 Something on the Origins of the Two Largest Map Collections in the USA and the Practice of Map History Dec 3, 2022
- Dec 3, 2022 The 5Ps, a mnemonic for map historians Dec 3, 2022
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November 2022
- Nov 29, 2022 Another small essay Nov 29, 2022
- Nov 27, 2022 The History of Map Exhibitions Nov 27, 2022
- Nov 20, 2022 New Short Essay on mapping, history, and technologial innovation in early 19c eastern USA Nov 20, 2022
- Nov 20, 2022 How to Prepare a PowerPoint Presentation for Map History Nov 20, 2022
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June 2022
- Jun 26, 2022 Another New Essay Jun 26, 2022
- Jun 14, 2022 A Curious Implementation of Copper-Plate Printing Jun 14, 2022
- Jun 13, 2022 A New Essay Jun 13, 2022
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March 2022
- Mar 4, 2022 New Book About the Flat Earthers Mar 4, 2022
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February 2022
- Feb 20, 2022 Traditional Map History in the International Geographical Union Feb 20, 2022
- Feb 20, 2022 A Case of Mistaken Identity and Severe Historical Confusion Feb 20, 2022
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December 2021
- Dec 19, 2021 Map History Books of 2021 Dec 19, 2021
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November 2021
- Nov 30, 2021 Reading the “Blathwayt Atlas” of Colonial North America Nov 30, 2021
- Nov 26, 2021 The Importance of Context Nov 26, 2021
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October 2021
- Oct 30, 2021 The control-freakness of an early map collector Oct 30, 2021
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September 2021
- Sep 21, 2021 A Disturbing Map... Sep 21, 2021
- Sep 13, 2021 Constructing a Feminized Landscape Sep 13, 2021
- Sep 2, 2021 It's a Fake -- for real this time Sep 2, 2021
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August 2021
- Aug 23, 2021 Reworking the Founding Disciplinary Narrative along Cognitive Lines Aug 23, 2021
- Aug 20, 2021 Some Thoughts on Jacques Bertin’s “[Carto]graphic Semiology” Aug 20, 2021
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July 2021
- Jul 21, 2021 More on the Fetishization of Triangulation (and on the Possible Schizophrenia of Recent Map History) Jul 21, 2021
- Jul 14, 2021 Triangulation ... it's not just "doing things with triangles" Jul 14, 2021
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June 2021
- Jun 30, 2021 Modern Histories of Geodesy and Surveying Jun 30, 2021
- Jun 28, 2021 Suppositions of Location and of Similitude Jun 28, 2021
- Jun 23, 2021 Origins of Map Libraries in the mid-Nineteenth Century Jun 23, 2021
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May 2021
- May 18, 2021 An Early Color Facsimile: Hand-Applied or Printed? May 18, 2021
- May 5, 2021 New short publication May 5, 2021
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April 2021
- Apr 21, 2021 Wikipedia's Absurdist Taxonomy of Map Types Apr 21, 2021
- Apr 5, 2021 Cognitive Maps in Bemazed Rats, and Humans Apr 5, 2021
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March 2021
- Mar 22, 2021 Death to Cartography! Mar 22, 2021
- Mar 18, 2021 Winther "When Maps Become the World" (2020) Mar 18, 2021
- Mar 13, 2021 From an Art to Science (How Mapping Acquired Its Fiber) Mar 13, 2021
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February 2021
- Feb 21, 2021 Perfecting the World Map? Feb 21, 2021
- Feb 17, 2021 A “Radically Different” World Map? Feb 17, 2021
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January 2021
- Jan 31, 2021 Irene Jean Curnow (active 1921–30) Jan 31, 2021
- Jan 24, 2021 Zoom Interview on 4 Feb 2021 Jan 24, 2021
- Jan 24, 2021 Bauhaus and Map Collecting Jan 24, 2021
- Jan 19, 2021 Comparative Cartography Jan 19, 2021
- Jan 17, 2021 On the Destruction and Loss of Early (Wall) Maps Jan 17, 2021
- Jan 9, 2021 What Is a “Planisphere”? Jan 9, 2021
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December 2020
- Dec 31, 2020 Map History Books of 2020 Dec 31, 2020
- Dec 28, 2020 Newfound Old Maps of Maine Dec 28, 2020
- Dec 20, 2020 New anti-"Flat Earth" Video Dec 20, 2020
- Dec 18, 2020 Harley’s Understandable, but Misplaced, Criticism of Bagrow’s “History of Cartography” Dec 18, 2020
- Dec 8, 2020 Explicating the Observational Preconception of the Ideal of Cartography Dec 8, 2020
- Dec 7, 2020 Rethinking Maps and Mapping and How They Have Developed and Evolved Dec 7, 2020
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November 2020
- Nov 25, 2020 The Maps We Play ... Nov 25, 2020
- Nov 16, 2020 Unknown early disciples of Humboldt and Santarém Nov 16, 2020
- Nov 6, 2020 Jomard vs Santarém Nov 6, 2020
- Nov 6, 2020 The Growth of Map History in the Nineteenth Century Nov 6, 2020
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October 2020
- Oct 15, 2020 Creating 'Discovery' Oct 15, 2020
- Oct 10, 2020 Killing Cartography Oct 10, 2020
- Oct 9, 2020 Review forum for Cartography: The Ideal and Its History Oct 9, 2020
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September 2020
- Sep 26, 2020 Small Piece Published re Maine Mapping Exhibition Sep 26, 2020
- Sep 24, 2020 Interview with Mary and me about Volume Four Sep 24, 2020
- Sep 12, 2020 I Have Located a Town ... Sep 12, 2020
- Sep 9, 2020 "Mapping Maine" is up and ready to visit Sep 9, 2020
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August 2020
- Aug 26, 2020 River Names Aug 26, 2020
- Aug 19, 2020 A Little-Known Facsimile Aug 19, 2020
- Aug 16, 2020 An Early Narrative of Map History Aug 16, 2020
- Aug 13, 2020 Rehabilitating “Historical Map” Aug 13, 2020
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July 2020
- Jul 28, 2020 The Venetian Discovery of the New World before Columbus? Jul 28, 2020
- Jul 27, 2020 How to Sell Maps in the Eighteenth Century Jul 27, 2020
- Jul 23, 2020 Here be dragons ... Jul 23, 2020
- Jul 20, 2020 Early Histories of Geodesy Jul 20, 2020
- Jul 10, 2020 cfp: International Conference on the History of Cartography, 2021 Jul 10, 2020
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June 2020
- Jun 7, 2020 An Early pro-Australian World Map Jun 7, 2020
- Jun 3, 2020 Video of a Conference Presentation !! Jun 3, 2020
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May 2020
- May 29, 2020 “Mode” or “Genre”? May 29, 2020
- May 29, 2020 Do You Have What It Takes? May 29, 2020
- May 27, 2020 What a difference a caption makes May 27, 2020
- May 11, 2020 Who was Matthäus/Martin Brazl? May 11, 2020
- May 9, 2020 The Map's the Thing May 9, 2020
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April 2020
- Apr 29, 2020 Lists of map libraries with online access Apr 29, 2020
- Apr 25, 2020 Maps in Fantasy Books Apr 25, 2020
- Apr 25, 2020 Maps, Humor, and the Absurd Apr 25, 2020
- Apr 24, 2020 Volume 4 is in the warehouse! Apr 24, 2020
- Apr 24, 2020 New podcast with me! Apr 24, 2020
- Apr 22, 2020 cfp: maps and cartographies in the English-speaking world in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Apr 22, 2020
- Apr 16, 2020 A Mass of Covid-19 maps and data graphics Apr 16, 2020
- Apr 12, 2020 A Roman map of Britain? Apr 12, 2020
- Apr 9, 2020 Celebrate!!!!! Apr 9, 2020
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March 2020
- Mar 24, 2020 Finally, a proper cartogram of covid-19 Mar 24, 2020
- Mar 24, 2020 Getting granular on a national scale Mar 24, 2020
- Mar 23, 2020 More granular mapping of the corona virus Mar 23, 2020
- Mar 22, 2020 Some Self-Deprecation Mar 22, 2020
- Mar 12, 2020 How to map the covid-19 outbreak Mar 12, 2020
- Mar 11, 2020 How not to map the covid-19 pandemic Mar 11, 2020
- Mar 5, 2020 Great (new) resource for medieval maps Mar 5, 2020
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February 2020
- Feb 20, 2020 Eight Considerations for Reading Maps Feb 20, 2020
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January 2020
- Jan 28, 2020 George III's Military Map Collection Jan 28, 2020
- Jan 25, 2020 Why it can be hard to watch media Jan 25, 2020
- Jan 23, 2020 "Cartograph" Jan 23, 2020
- Jan 8, 2020 Tweet Test Jan 8, 2020
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December 2019
- Dec 31, 2019 Map History Books of 2019 Dec 31, 2019
- Dec 25, 2019 The Best Map History Books of the Decade Dec 25, 2019
- Dec 4, 2019 An idiosyncratic method of locational referencing that has me stumped Dec 4, 2019
- Dec 2, 2019 Abandoning Facebook and academia.edu Dec 2, 2019
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November 2019
- Nov 14, 2019 An 1826 Plan for Rational Place Naming Nov 14, 2019
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October 2019
- Oct 25, 2019 H-Maps - An Email List for Early Maps Oct 25, 2019
- Oct 15, 2019 For Indigenous Peoples’ Day Oct 15, 2019
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September 2019
- Sep 12, 2019 The Magnetic Compass and North Orientation Sep 12, 2019
- Sep 10, 2019 A Stunning Realization Sep 10, 2019
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August 2019
- Aug 30, 2019 The History of Cartography Series Aug 30, 2019
- Aug 29, 2019 A major new study fails to consider maps in books Aug 29, 2019
- Aug 12, 2019 Early Colonial Property Mapping in Poetry Aug 12, 2019
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June 2019
- Jun 25, 2019 Cartography: The Interview (New Books Network) Jun 25, 2019
- Jun 6, 2019 Of Measures and Tyranny Jun 6, 2019
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May 2019
- May 10, 2019 ‘A Handsome Exhibit of the Land’ May 10, 2019
- May 6, 2019 The History of Cartography in a Brief Poem May 6, 2019
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April 2019
- Apr 24, 2019 Plaintive haiku Apr 24, 2019
- Apr 11, 2019 “The New Cartography” Apr 11, 2019
- Apr 4, 2019 Is the World's Oldest Map a Map? Apr 4, 2019
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March 2019
- Mar 25, 2019 It's here! Mar 25, 2019
- Mar 14, 2019 2018 Books on Map History Mar 14, 2019
- Mar 9, 2019 More FErs Mar 9, 2019
- Mar 3, 2019 Pocket globes "in the wild" Mar 3, 2019
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December 2018
- Dec 19, 2018 The First International Map of the World? Dec 19, 2018
- Dec 15, 2018 A Misunderstood Quatrain Dec 15, 2018
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November 2018
- Nov 29, 2018 A partial, essentialist, and incorrect etymology for “map” Nov 29, 2018
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October 2018
- Oct 2, 2018 Update re "Cartography: The Ideal and Its History" Oct 2, 2018
- Oct 2, 2018 The Limits to Mapping Oct 2, 2018
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September 2018
- Sep 4, 2018 USGS Printing Techniques Sep 4, 2018
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August 2018
- Aug 17, 2018 The Materiality of Maps Aug 17, 2018
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July 2018
- Jul 8, 2018 The Cartographic Ideal’s Preconception of Pictorialness Jul 8, 2018
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June 2018
- Jun 28, 2018 A Flat Earth? Jun 28, 2018
- Jun 3, 2018 A Game of Snakes and Ladders Jun 3, 2018
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May 2018
- May 24, 2018 Squaring the Cartographic Circle May 24, 2018
- May 5, 2018 Maps, Semiotics, and History May 5, 2018
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March 2018
- Mar 29, 2018 A mezzotint star map Mar 29, 2018
- Mar 15, 2018 Every Map Is Interesting! Mar 15, 2018
- Mar 14, 2018 First Steps towards a Partial Genealogy of the Compass Rose Mar 14, 2018
- Mar 10, 2018 A Salutary Reminder... Mar 10, 2018
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February 2018
- Feb 23, 2018 Maps and Memory ... and Imagination Feb 23, 2018
- Feb 16, 2018 A Self-Explanatory Map? Come for the Satire, Stay for the Fun Feb 16, 2018
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January 2018
- Jan 27, 2018 Of Maps, Libraries, and Lectures: The Nebenzahl Lectures and the Study of Map History Jan 27, 2018
- Jan 15, 2018 Why I Don’t Like Thematic Maps Jan 15, 2018
- Jan 11, 2018 What is a Processual Approach to Mapping? Jan 11, 2018
- Jan 4, 2018 "Cartography in the European Enlightenment" goes to press! Jan 4, 2018
- Jan 1, 2018 2017 Books on Map History Jan 1, 2018
- Jan 1, 2018 A paper about me! Jan 1, 2018
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December 2017
- Dec 14, 2017 This is Not a Map Dec 14, 2017
- Dec 13, 2017 ISHMap: International Society for the History of the Map Dec 13, 2017
- Dec 13, 2017 Why "Mapping as Process"? Dec 13, 2017
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.