Matthew Edney<p>First thing of the day -- newly acquired <a href="https://historians.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>map</span></a> digitized by Osher Map Library - Walter Crane's famous 1886 Imperial Federation map!!</p><p>Online at <a href="https://oshermaps.org/map/59097.0001" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">oshermaps.org/map/59097.0001</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>empire</span></a></p>
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Matthew Edney<p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/mapsinthewild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapsinthewild</span></a> — this might be my last time in the Science Hall office of the history of <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> project, as the building is about to get entirely rehabilitated before I next have to return in person! So here’s David Woodward’s blow up of 1651 Speed <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> … <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> … w photos of Woodward and Harley !!!!</p>
Matthew Edney<p>Just to say that I am back in Charlottesville this week, at the University of Virginia, teaching my <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> course at Rare Book School — day one done!! <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> — here’s Thomas Jefferson’s rotunda!</p>
Penny Richards<p>The Whitlock map is a great LA story: <a href="https://www.getty.edu/news/getty-la-metro-whitlock-map-digitization" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">getty.edu/news/getty-la-metro-</span><span class="invisible">whitlock-map-digitization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/thegetty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thegetty</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@mhedney" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mhedney</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/losangeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>losangeles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/womenandmaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenandmaps</span></a></p>
Matthew Edney<p>There's a great podcast on <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a>, <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a>, and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a>.</p><p>"What's Your Map?" is found on all podcast services and at <a href="https://oculi-mundi.com/podcast" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">oculi-mundi.com/podcast</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>.</p><p>Host Jerry Brotton interviews scholars, writers, designers, and artists about all kinds of maps and mapping. It's as much about interests and personal history as about maps. Fascinating!</p><p>The latest episode dropped this a.m., with ME (!) talking about one of my favoretist world maps (Joan Blaeu 1662 (image), the death of cartography, etc.</p>
Matthew Edney<p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> talk alert !!!!</p><p>Nathan Braccio, "The Power of Mapmaking in 17th-Century New England" -- February 11, 2025 @ 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time</p><p>Should be good !! Nathan does excellent work on English-indigenous interactions and mapping</p><p><a href="https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/the-power-of-mapmaking-in-17th-century-new-england/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">clarku.edu/events/event/the-po</span><span class="invisible">wer-of-mapmaking-in-17th-century-new-england/</span></a></p><p>(Image = 1634 map of Englih settlement in New England, in William Wood's *New Englands Prospect*)</p>
Matthew Edney<p>Please boost:</p><p>I will be teaching H-65 Material Foundations of Map History, 1450–1900 at Rare Book School, 1–6 June 2025 !!!!!</p><p>• we study maps, we print, we discuss, we learn !!<br>• it's an intense week in Charlottesville at the original Rare Book School !!<br>• please come !!</p><p>For more info, goto <a href="https://rarebookschool.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">rarebookschool.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> and go to "course schedule"; you can check out all my evaluations from past courses!</p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>map</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cartography</span></a></p>
Matthew Edney<p>New Book !!!!! Carla Lois’ wonderful *Terrae Incognitae: Mapping the Unknown*, just out from Brill. A far-ranging reflection on the unknown in mapping.</p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a></p>
Daniel Bellingradt<p>What helps to navigate the route and directions is the provided compass of the map: "Der Compass". </p><p>Having a compass built into a navigation device with mile indicators leading to the direction of the trip's goal at the screen's top might be our present solution in cars, but it has roots in the fifteenth-century map making. Enjoy this fact, dear <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a>. <a href="https://historians.social/tags/BookHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookHistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/MapHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MapHistory</span></a> </p><p>4/4</p>
Daniel Bellingradt<p>Produced as a woodcut, i.e. the details cut into a block of wood before printing, the map was always in the same size and format as the very wood block used: 41 x 29 cm in stereographic projection to a scale of about 1:5,600,000.</p><p>Have a look at the map yourself: <a href="https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/9a239e34-a3f9-4914-ab93-cc982cb944a0/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/obje</span><span class="invisible">cts/9a239e34-a3f9-4914-ab93-cc982cb944a0/</span></a> </p><p>The dots used on the map are mile-indicators for actual travelers to Rome - or for travelers of the mind. </p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/MapHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MapHistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/BookHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookHistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a></p><p>2/4</p>
Daniel Bellingradt<p>All roads lead to Rome. Meet the earliest known European map with a scale: This woodcut "south up" map by Erhard Etzlaub offers a route to Rome - located on the top of the map - through early modern German speaking Europe. The map was printed as a single-sheet item, and was made in Nuremberg for the Holy Year 1500.</p><p>Etzlaub wanted his "Rom-Weg" map to be bought, so he offered colored versions too, like the one you see, because these were more expensive. A thread for <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> </p><p>1/4</p>
Matthew Edney<p>Another new post for <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> buffs on Alexander Dalrymple's spiteful exercise in map history in 1786, based on the so-called "Harleian" map. It's a fun little piece I had to cut for space. See:</p><p><a href="https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024/11/11/alexander-dalrymples-spiteful-innovation-in-map-history" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024</span><span class="invisible">/11/11/alexander-dalrymples-spiteful-innovation-in-map-history</span></a></p>
Matthew Edney<p>For <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> buffs, I have a new post on a precursor to modernist 20c world mappings that treat the world as a polyhedron (the image is of Bernard Cahill's 1909 construction of his butterfly map), in the 1889 application of astronomical mapping practice to the earth by Richard Proctor. It's fun and was completely new to me. See:</p><p><a href="https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024/11/3/the-first-unorthodox-modernist-mapping-of-the-world" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024</span><span class="invisible">/11/3/the-first-unorthodox-modernist-mapping-of-the-world</span></a></p>
Matthew Edney<p>I just encountered R A Proctor's "A Students Atlas" (1889) ... which prefigured 20c work by Cahill and Fuller by mapping the earth as a dodecahedron, each facet separately projected as a circle, with blisters or boils for some places ... and each circle is done on azimuthal equidistant, prefiguring Richard Edes Harrison! Need to learn more!!</p><p>Fortunately internet archive has a scanned file from UWisc at <a href="https://archive.org/details/studentsatlasin00procgoog/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/studentsat</span><span class="invisible">lasin00procgoog/mode/2up</span></a></p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/atlas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atlas</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a></p>
Matthew Edney<p>3 more new arrivals re <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> and stuff … <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> !!</p><p>Sara Caputo on early maps and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>navigation</span></a></p><p>Luis Alvarez on digital mapping <a href="https://historians.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a></p><p>Maria Lane on <a href="https://historians.social/tags/irrigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>irrigation</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/colonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonization</span></a> and legal disputes in settlement of New Mexico</p>
Matthew Edney<p>Have mask, will travel … see you all soon in London for <a href="https://historians.social/tags/rgs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rgs</span></a> & <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ibg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ibg</span></a> conference re <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a> … and then for special <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ishmap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ishmap</span></a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/imagomundi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imagomundi</span></a> symposium</p>
I'm very please to pass on the info that MAPPING MOVEMENT is back online, after a change of servers. Now at https://mappingmovement.newberry.org/
A wonderful resource for #maps #cartography #maphistory #transportation -- maps and extensive commentaries by authoritative scholars.
It really is a triumph (by James Akerman)
Here's Joseph Simm's 1933 #map of dog breeds -- another benign and innocuous persuasive map! #maphistory
Examine it at https://oshermaps.org/map/49895.0001
and here's an utterly benign #map from 1936 of sheep breeds, by an architect called Joseph Sims. See the whole thing at https://oshermaps.org/map/50995.0001 - and while you're at it, check out his other maps in the OML collections! #maphistory
New book just arrived - wonderful collection about #maps and #cartography and #humanities … I have a chapter on #maphistory
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