August 15, 2023

New Book Chapter

August 15, 2023/ Matthew Edney

Should you be interested, The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society just came out in book and as an ebook. Edited by Alex Kent and Doug Specht. Full details and 20% off (through 30 September 2023) at: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Geospatial-Technologies-and-Society/Kent-Specht/p/book/9780367428877.

My chapter is a bit of an odd-man-out, by comparison to the rest of the volume (which is generally heavy on the technological or on the theoretical) on “Latitude, Longitude, and Geospatial Technologies to 1884” (pp. 7–22), has the following sections:

Location at sea I: latitude
Location on land: longitude
Location at sea II: longitude
Location on sea and land

As ever, check the bibliography (classified) for a link to the essay.

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.