March 18, 2021

Winther "When Maps Become the World" (2020)

March 18, 2021/ Matthew Edney

The review …

March 13, 2021

From an Art to Science (How Mapping Acquired Its Fiber)

March 13, 2021/ Matthew Edney

An Early, Popular, Pictorial Statement of the Romance of Old Maps

February 21, 2021

Perfecting the World Map?

February 21, 2021/ Matthew Edney

On Ideas and Measures of "Distortion" and the Recent Claims Made for a Two-Sided Hemispheric Projection

February 17, 2021

A “Radically Different” World Map?

February 17, 2021/ Matthew Edney

Not actually so different, after all. A mindboggling, gobsmacking claim!

January 31, 2021

Irene Jean Curnow (active 1921–30)

January 31, 2021/ Matthew Edney

Forgotten Internal Map Historian

January 24, 2021

Zoom Interview on 4 Feb 2021

January 24, 2021/ Matthew Edney

If you want to listen to me burble about Cartography: The Ideal and Its History

January 24, 2021

Bauhaus and Map Collecting

January 24, 2021/ Matthew Edney

Yes, they’re connected!

January 19, 2021

Comparative Cartography

January 19, 2021/ Matthew Edney

A Succinct Example of the Core Methodology of Traditional Map History

January 17, 2021

On the Destruction and Loss of Early (Wall) Maps

January 17, 2021/ Matthew Edney

Map Librarians Will Be Horrified!

Mapping as Process

Mapping 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.

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The books …

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.