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Boston area #map and #cartography heads: tons of map history books are at Brattleboro St Books — I mean LOTS of #maphistory — I grabbed a bunch but many many more still thee
The early 15th-century "Borgia map" was made from metal with enamel inlay; the 1797 facsimile is much misunderstood. I in turn was confused by the available images online; only some timely interventions from librarians helped me sort out the material conditions! I still need to go look at actual things, though (March and May) and maybe a trip to Rome to see the original!
There's a great podcast on #maps, #cartography, and #maphistory.
"What's Your Map?" is found on all podcast services and at https://oculi-mundi.com/podcast.
Host Jerry Brotton interviews scholars, writers, designers, and artists about all kinds of maps and mapping. It's as much about interests and personal history as about maps. Fascinating!
The latest episode dropped this a.m., with ME (!) talking about one of my favoretist world maps (Joan Blaeu 1662 (image), the death of cartography, etc.
I’ve been awaiting this new book on late medieval and renaissance French manuscript maps as art by Camille Serchuk … just arrived!
I broke down this morning to right a new start to the current book intro ...
Fortunately, did not last long, but still ...
#maphistory #cartography talk alert !!!!
Nathan Braccio, "The Power of Mapmaking in 17th-Century New England" -- February 11, 2025 @ 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Should be good !! Nathan does excellent work on English-indigenous interactions and mapping
https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/the-power-of-mapmaking-in-17th-century-new-england/
(Image = 1634 map of Englih settlement in New England, in William Wood's *New Englands Prospect*)
Please boost:
I will be teaching H-65 Material Foundations of Map History, 1450–1900 at Rare Book School, 1–6 June 2025 !!!!!
• we study maps, we print, we discuss, we learn !!
• it's an intense week in Charlottesville at the original Rare Book School !!
• please come !!
For more info, goto https://rarebookschool.org/ and go to "course schedule"; you can check out all my evaluations from past courses!
New Book !!!!! Carla Lois’ wonderful *Terrae Incognitae: Mapping the Unknown*, just out from Brill. A far-ranging reflection on the unknown in mapping.
New OML donation - 1851 analytical #map of the Haudenosaunee by Henry Lewis Morgan
I just posted my annual list of recently published books in map history and also more conceptual works re maps and mapping.
#map #maphistory #cartography #bibliography
Enjoy!
(Image is 1500 view of Venice by Jacopo de' Barbari, from the Cleveland Museum of Art = www.clevelandart.org/art/1949.565)
What helps to navigate the route and directions is the provided compass of the map: "Der Compass".
Having a compass built into a navigation device with mile indicators leading to the direction of the trip's goal at the screen's top might be our present solution in cars, but it has roots in the fifteenth-century map making. Enjoy this fact, dear #histodons. #BookHistory #MapHistory
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Produced as a woodcut, i.e. the details cut into a block of wood before printing, the map was always in the same size and format as the very wood block used: 41 x 29 cm in stereographic projection to a scale of about 1:5,600,000.
Have a look at the map yourself: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/9a239e34-a3f9-4914-ab93-cc982cb944a0/
The dots used on the map are mile-indicators for actual travelers to Rome - or for travelers of the mind.
#MapHistory #BookHistory #histodons
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All roads lead to Rome. Meet the earliest known European map with a scale: This woodcut "south up" map by Erhard Etzlaub offers a route to Rome - located on the top of the map - through early modern German speaking Europe. The map was printed as a single-sheet item, and was made in Nuremberg for the Holy Year 1500.
Etzlaub wanted his "Rom-Weg" map to be bought, so he offered colored versions too, like the one you see, because these were more expensive. A thread for #histodons #maphistory
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Another new post for #maps and #maphistory buffs on Alexander Dalrymple's spiteful exercise in map history in 1786, based on the so-called "Harleian" map. It's a fun little piece I had to cut for space. See:
For #maps and #maphistory buffs, I have a new post on a precursor to modernist 20c world mappings that treat the world as a polyhedron (the image is of Bernard Cahill's 1909 construction of his butterfly map), in the 1889 application of astronomical mapping practice to the earth by Richard Proctor. It's fun and was completely new to me. See:
https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024/11/3/the-first-unorthodox-modernist-mapping-of-the-world
My encounter yesterday with R A Proctor's *A Student's Atlas* (1889) has led to a rabbit hole. I've written up the results:
The First Unorthodox, Modernist Mapping of the World? Before Buckminster Fuller and Bernard Cahill and their angular, fragmented world maps, there was Richard A. Proctor and his Star Atlas (1870), New Star Atlas (1874), and Student’s Atlas (1889)
https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024/11/3/the-first-unorthodox-modernist-mapping-of-the-world
Before Buckminster Fuller and Bernard Cahill and their…
Mapping as ProcessI just encountered R A Proctor's "A Students Atlas" (1889) ... which prefigured 20c work by Cahill and Fuller by mapping the earth as a dodecahedron, each facet separately projected as a circle, with blisters or boils for some places ... and each circle is done on azimuthal equidistant, prefiguring Richard Edes Harrison! Need to learn more!!
Fortunately internet archive has a scanned file from UWisc at https://archive.org/details/studentsatlasin00procgoog/mode/2up
The wonderful site with translations and explanations of "The Book of Curiosities" (ca. 1200 CE from ca. 1050 CE original) is gone..
I know why DH sites reach "end of life" but it's so disheartening (This was, I think, the second incarnation of the work.) At least there's a published book:
Rapoport, Yossef, and Emilie Savage-Smith, eds. 2014. An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe: The Book of Curiosities. Leiden: Brill.
3 more new arrivals re #maps and stuff … #maphistory !!
Sara Caputo on early maps and #navigation
Luis Alvarez on digital mapping #GIS and #cartography
Maria Lane on #irrigation #colonization and legal disputes in settlement of New Mexico
Back at good ol’ Science Hall for a couple of days … under the eaves at left (with the sole window) is the History of Cartography Project!! #maps #cartography #maphistory
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