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Mapping as Process

A blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption

Mapping as Process

Mapping as Process

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    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
    • Cartography (reviews)
    • Harley's Cartographic Theories
    • Mapping an Empire
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June 23, 2021

Origins of Map Libraries in the mid-Nineteenth Century

June 23, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Origins of Map Libraries in the mid-Nineteenth Century

A brief summary, with references

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May 18, 2021

An Early Color Facsimile: Hand-Applied or Printed?

May 18, 2021/ Matthew Edney
An Early Color Facsimile: Hand-Applied or Printed?

A curious 1856 facsimile of the map of the east coast of Jave-le-grand from the 1547 Vallard Atlas

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May 18, 2021/ Matthew Edney/
May 05, 2021

New short publication

May 05, 2021/ Matthew Edney
New short publication

I wrote the Last Word column for the latest issue of Library of Congress Magazine, which is all about maps!

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May 05, 2021/ Matthew Edney/
April 21, 2021

Wikipedia's Absurdist Taxonomy of Map Types

April 21, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Wikipedia's Absurdist Taxonomy of Map Types

A classification of maps worthy of Jorge Luis Borges !!

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April 21, 2021/ Matthew Edney/
April 05, 2021

Cognitive Maps in Bemazed Rats, and Humans

April 05, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Cognitive Maps in Bemazed Rats, and Humans

How the Cartographic Ideal shaped Tolman’s (1948) interpretations of the nature of human spatial cognition

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April 05, 2021/ Matthew Edney/
March 22, 2021

Death to Cartography!

March 22, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Death to Cartography!

A new podcast on “Undisciplined”

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March 22, 2021/ Matthew Edney/
March 18, 2021

Winther "When Maps Become the World" (2020)

March 18, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Winther "When Maps Become the World" (2020)

The review …

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March 13, 2021

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

March 13, 2021/ Matthew Edney
From an Art to Science (How Mapping Acquired Its Fiber)

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

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February 21, 2021

Perfecting the World Map?

February 21, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Perfecting the World Map?

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

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February 21, 2021/ Matthew Edney/
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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 …

Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”: Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations in Brill Research Perspectives on Map History. Available from Brill in print and as an ebook ($87).

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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).

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Available from the University of Chicago Press in paperback ($30), e-book ($10–30), or cloth ($90).

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Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.

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