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Map History Books of 2019
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The books that came out in the past twelve months that caught my attention. (Of course I have to use the image of my own!)
Read MoreThe Best Map History Books of the Decade
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It’s late December and the media industry has been busy churning out the lists of the best (and worst) Xs of 2019 and also, because it’s 2019, they are also generating lists of the best (and worst) Xs of the decade. Here’s my idiosyncratic list of the best books in map history of the decade.
Read MoreAn idiosyncratic method of locational referencing that has me stumped
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Is this an imperialistic claim by a British author to the Holy Land, or what?
Read MoreAbandoning Facebook and academia.edu
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I’ll shortly be deleting the FB feed for “mapping as process” — follow me on H-MAPS or via an RSS reader to learn of new posts. I might try twitter.
Read MoreAn 1826 Plan for Rational Place Naming
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Apparently, I live not in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine, USA, but in Oild-Veetty (or should it be Kild-Noutvy?)
Read MoreH-Maps - An Email List for Early Maps
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Everyone with anything like an academic interest in early maps (which is to say everyone who likes this blog) should join!
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The Magnetic Compass and North Orientation
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Is the Magnetic Compass Responsible for the Common Practice of Orienting Maps to the North?
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