The History of Cartography, the “Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever,” Is Free Online

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 03:55:50 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.openculture.com/2023/12/the-history-of-cartography-the-most-ambitious-overview-of-map-making-ever-is-free-online.html>

"FYI: The Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go Press has made avail­able online — at no
cost –five vol­umes of The His­to­ry of Car­tog­ra­phy. Or what Edward
Roth­stein, of The New York Times, called “the most ambi­tious overview of map
mak­ing ever under­tak­en.” He con­tin­ues:

Peo­ple come to know the world the way they come to map it—through their
per­cep­tions of how its ele­ments are con­nect­ed and of how they should
move among them. This is pre­cise­ly what the series is attempt­ing by
sit­u­at­ing the map at the heart of cul­tur­al life and reveal­ing its
rela­tion­ship to soci­ety, sci­ence, and reli­gion…. It is try­ing to
define a new set of rela­tion­ships between maps and the phys­i­cal world
that involve more than geo­met­ric cor­re­spon­dence. It is in essence a new
map of human attempts to chart the world."

Via Christoph S.

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