A blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption
It’s fun: “In Search of a Flat Earth” by Dan Olson (11 September 2020), on his “Folding Ideas” channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44
It essentially discusses the difficulties of proving the earth’s curvature to FEers, but how to do it even so. Some good imagery.
For that matter, see Olson’s “That Time Geocentrists Tricked a Bunch of Physicists” (20 November 2020).
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.
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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