Squaring the Cartographic Circle
/I read this stuff so you don’t have to!
Read MoreA blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption
How not to do them. A response to Casti (2018)
Read MoreChristof Friedrich Goldbach’s white-on-black star charts
Read MoreBoring maps ... and maps of boring places ... are to be savored!
Read More...or at least towards being precise about this nebulous feature
Read More... that the people to whom I react were themselves reacting to the know-nothingness of their predecessors.
Read MoreHow I came to be a map historian; memories prompted by looking at maps.
Read MoreMark Twain—known for his writing—also made this absurdist map of Paris in 1870.
Read MoreThe script of my presentation to the 19th Nebenzahl Lectures, 27 October 2016.
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.
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).
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