Reading the “Blathwayt Atlas” of Colonial North America
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Studying not the particular maps and their histories (that’s been done) but rather the significance of the structuring of of a composite atlas
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The control-freakness of an early map collector
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A letter explaining the manner in which an eighteen-century mega-collector wishes to organize and index his huge map collection.
Read MoreA Disturbing Map...
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I find a modern rendition of William Hubbard’s map of New England, published in two variants in Boston and London in 1677, rather upsetting.
Read MoreConstructing a Feminized Landscape
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A 1906 map of Beverly Hills subdivision in the shape of a woman!
Read MoreIt's a Fake -- for real this time
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The Vinland Map is finally, officially acknowledged as a fake. So, who faked it?
Read MoreReworking the Founding Disciplinary Narrative along Cognitive Lines
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Henry Castner and Barbara Petchenik Reconfigure Arthur Robinson’s History of Cartography
Read More![Some Thoughts on Jacques Bertin’s “[Carto]graphic Semiology”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a317986aeb6255dd87994e4/1629509704767-X1FFBPQHLFXBD5LBORKE/091+img+00.jpg)
More on the Fetishization of Triangulation (and on the Possible Schizophrenia of Recent Map History)
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Jean Picard’s “Corrected Map of France” was not by triangulation …
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