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The Enigma of the Origin of Portolan Charts
The enigmatic nautical charts of the Mediterranean and Black Sea, known as portolan charts, which suddenly appeared in Italy in the thirteenth century are shown to be sophisticated maps the construction of which was well beyond medieval European mapping capabilities.
Cartography
Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.
“The” British Isles
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Ormeling's Cartography
Contributions such as: Visualising an all-round cartographer : a bibliography of Prof. Dr. Ferjan Ormeling (E. Heere, M. Storms); The Ormeling Collection in the map collection of the Utrecht University Library (M. van Egmond); Atlas terminology and atlas concepts (ed. 1998); Cartographic education; Cartographic infrastructure; Toponymy; History of cartography. And last but not least: the bibliography of Ormeling, containing 432 titles
The Book Collector
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The History of Cartography, Volume 4
Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a comprehensive overview of the cartographic practices of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans, both at home and in overseas territories, from 1650 to 1800. The social and intellectual changes that swept Enlightenment Europe also transformed many of its mapmaking practices. A new emphasis on geometric principles gave rise to improved tools for measuring and mapping the world, even as large-scale cartographic projects became possible under the aegis of po...
Current Geographical Publications
Current Geographical Publications (CGP) is a non-profit service to the scholarly community initiated in 1938 by the American Geographical Society of New York. Beginning in 2006, the format changed to include the tables of contents of current geographical journals. The journal titles listed link to web pages or PDF scans of the current issue's contents.
Bibliographia Cartographica
Diese jährlich erscheinende Bibliographie dokumentiert das internationale kartographische Schrifttum. Jeder Band verzeichnet weit mehr als 2.000 Monographien und Artikel aus etwa 400 Zeitschriften, die von einem internationalen Mitarbeiterstab analysiert werden. Themen sind u.a. die Geschichte der Kartographie, Persönlichkeiten und Institutionen der Kartographie, die Kartenherstellung, Bereiche wie die topographische oder die Atlas-Kartographie, aber auch Blindenkarten, Film- und Bildschirmkarten und die Kartennutzung. Die originalsprachig aufgeführten Titel sind durch ein Autorenregister sowie durch ein englisch-, deutsch- und französischsprachiges Inhaltsverzeichnis zugänglich.
The British Isles
Description: Includes a Festival of Britain, 1951 programme.
