River Names
/A Question of Whose Ontological Consistency
Read MoreA blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption
Ramón de la Sagra’s facsimile of Juan de la Cosa’s depiction of the New World in 1500
Read MoreRufus Blanchard’s Historical Map of the United States (1876)
Read MoreIt’s time to end a confusing prescription good only for academic gate-keeping
Read MoreThe 1783 Arguments of Vincenzio Antonio Formaleoni
Read More… to college students, at least, alongside pre-written essays
Read MoreHow scholars who measured the size of the earth wrote about the history of that endeavor, before 1720 and the debate over the spheroidal shape of the earth
Read More4–9 July 2021 – in Bucharest, Romania !!
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).
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.
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