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Matthew Edney<p>New <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> book on 19c mapping by <a href="https://historians.social/tags/firstnations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firstnations</span></a> peoples in what is now Canada — <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a></p>
Matthew Edney<p>Just to say that I am back in Charlottesville this week, at the University of Virginia, teaching my <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> course at Rare Book School — day one done!! <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> — here’s Thomas Jefferson’s rotunda!</p>
Penny Richards<p>The Whitlock map is a great LA story: <a href="https://www.getty.edu/news/getty-la-metro-whitlock-map-digitization" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">getty.edu/news/getty-la-metro-</span><span class="invisible">whitlock-map-digitization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/thegetty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thegetty</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@mhedney" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mhedney</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/losangeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>losangeles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/womenandmaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenandmaps</span></a></p>
Matthew Edney<p>I just approved the final proofs for the next book!!! Wow!</p><p>COMPARATIVE MAP HISTORY AND 'THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY' = 140 pages of sheer scholarly goodness (if you're into such things!)</p><p>Brill will release the book at the end of July: <a href="https://brill.com/display/title/73079" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">brill.com/display/title/73079</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>My thanks to Carla Lois for including this beastie in her series, Brill Research Perspectives in Map History !!</p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a></p>
Images of BergenFirst non-photography! Swipe for coloured version.<br> <br> Hieronymus Scholeus drew a view of <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Bergen?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bergen</a> in 1581, creating the world's oldest (known) depiction of the city, and the first of a Norwegian city at all.<br> <br> There was uncertainty whether the artist had ever actually been in Bergen, due to odd inconsistencies such as the palisade fence around the city which has never been there, but letters from the client to the king states the artist actually came here. The working theory is that <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Scholeus?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scholeus</a> drew it from a number of sketches after having left the city, and added a few details in post.<br> <br> Collected with a large number of other copper engravings of cities, this image was in the German-published series "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" (Cities of the world).<br> <br> Photo via University of Bergen Library: <a href="https://marcus.uib.no/instance/map/ubb-librar-f-0017.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://marcus.uib.no/instance/map/ubb-librar-f-0017.html</a><br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Norway?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Norway</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Norge?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Norge</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/NorskPix?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorskPix</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/HistoricalMaps?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoricalMaps</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/historical?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#historical</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/MapHistory?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MapHistory</a>
Matthew Edney<p>There's a great podcast on <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a>, <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a>, and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a>.</p><p>"What's Your Map?" is found on all podcast services and at <a href="https://oculi-mundi.com/podcast" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">oculi-mundi.com/podcast</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>.</p><p>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!</p><p>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.</p>
Matthew Edney<p>I broke down this morning to right a new start to the current book intro ...</p><p>Fortunately, did not last long, but still ...</p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cartography</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a></p>
Matthew Edney<p>Please boost:</p><p>I will be teaching H-65 Material Foundations of Map History, 1450–1900 at Rare Book School, 1–6 June 2025 !!!!!</p><p>• we study maps, we print, we discuss, we learn !!<br>• it's an intense week in Charlottesville at the original Rare Book School !!<br>• please come !!</p><p>For more info, goto <a href="https://rarebookschool.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">rarebookschool.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> and go to "course schedule"; you can check out all my evaluations from past courses!</p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>map</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cartography</span></a></p>
Matthew Edney<p>New Book !!!!! Carla Lois’ wonderful *Terrae Incognitae: Mapping the Unknown*, just out from Brill. A far-ranging reflection on the unknown in mapping.</p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a></p>
Matthew Edney<p>I just posted my annual list of recently published books in map history and also more conceptual works re maps and mapping.</p><p><a href="https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024/12/19/2024-books-in-map-history-plus-some-i-missed-from-2023" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024</span><span class="invisible">/12/19/2024-books-in-map-history-plus-some-i-missed-from-2023</span></a></p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>map</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/bibliography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bibliography</span></a> </p><p>Enjoy!</p><p>(Image is 1500 view of Venice by Jacopo de' Barbari, from the Cleveland Museum of Art = www.clevelandart.org/art/1949.565)</p>
Daniel Bellingradt<p>What helps to navigate the route and directions is the provided compass of the map: "Der Compass". </p><p>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 <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a>. <a href="https://historians.social/tags/BookHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookHistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/MapHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MapHistory</span></a> </p><p>4/4</p>
Daniel Bellingradt<p>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.</p><p>Have a look at the map yourself: <a href="https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/9a239e34-a3f9-4914-ab93-cc982cb944a0/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/obje</span><span class="invisible">cts/9a239e34-a3f9-4914-ab93-cc982cb944a0/</span></a> </p><p>The dots used on the map are mile-indicators for actual travelers to Rome - or for travelers of the mind. </p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/MapHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MapHistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/BookHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookHistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a></p><p>2/4</p>
Daniel Bellingradt<p>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.</p><p>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 <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> </p><p>1/4</p>
Matthew Edney<p>I 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!!</p><p>Fortunately internet archive has a scanned file from UWisc at <a href="https://archive.org/details/studentsatlasin00procgoog/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/studentsat</span><span class="invisible">lasin00procgoog/mode/2up</span></a></p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/atlas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atlas</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a></p>
Matthew Edney<p>One of the most amazing <a href="https://historians.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>map</span></a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> sites -- <a href="https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">persuasivemaps.library.cornell</span><span class="invisible">.edu/</span></a> -- has just added another 400 (!) images of maps from PJ Mode's collection -- it's an incredible resource for <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a>. Total now is about 1200 maps -- go explore!!!!!</p><p>Image is of Albrecht Penck's map of extension of Volksboden as Kulturboden in 1925 -- a thoroughly politicized image!</p><p>But many many more at PJ's site.</p>
Matthew Edney<p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>map</span></a> event</p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/Cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cartography</span></a> of the Far East at the BNF: Construction and composition of a national collection</p><p>Initial seminar to mark the beginning of new project, 28 June 2024 (2-6 pm). Presentations by Julie Garel-Grislin, Catherine Hofmann, and Eve Netchine</p><p>BNF, Site Richelieu, salle Emilie du Châtelet, 5 rue Vivienne 75002 Paris <a href="https://www.bnf.fr/fr/richelieu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">bnf.fr/fr/richelieu</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Register (in person or zoom): veronique.join-lambert@bnf.fr<br>before June 10, 2024</p>