on the history of determining lat and long

Peter Benes’s incredibly wide-ranging map exhibition of 1980 marks the shifting nature of “the history of cartography” (and of folklore studies), establishing a pattern followed by several later exhibitions dedicated to the unity of cartography, even as the diverse array of materials in the exhibition put the lie to that unity.

Let’s revisit Boggs and Lewis’s 1945 guide that is REALLY USEFUL but that everyone seems to have forgotten about! With a challenge to modern lovers of map projections!!!

Further to my interest in the history of map exhibitions, here’s an account of one I was led to yesterday by Benjamin Benus. It’s a modernist history of cartography as part of a grand wartime effort to redefine geography “for the future”

Several of the presentations from the 2016 series of the Nebenzahl Lectures, by me, Pegg, Schulten, and Akerman

I just can’t stay away from social media for the academic info

An interview with Libby Bischof about the map I blogged about for OML

In particular my response to Mark Denil’s attempt at an Aristotelian map philosophy that was borderline ad hominem towards myself.

Time for the annual list of map history books!