btw, I failed to brag -- my ongoing historiographical and conceptual work means that my bibliography on #map#maphistory#cartography and all sorts of other stuff -- every thing I've seen or encountered since 1995 -- to just over 22,000 records. Of these 14,800 are flagged as being about maps in some way. Here's a wodge of entries for my academic grandfather. I still need to work to get this stuff organized consistently and online!!
@GregCocks Thanks for sharing! If you like the work and want to see the final volume completed, please consider donating some $$$ … just go to https://geography.wisc.edu/histcart/ and click on “Make a gift”
Hot off the press: Michelle Wang on early #mapping in #China, 4th to 2nd centuries BCE. She gave a stunning presentation last summer in Berlin, so I’m really looking forward to reading this. Wang examines the three Han grave maps NOT from trad progressive view of historians of cartography but from art & material culture — just wonderful
Here is a story about a world map of a European that lived around 1300 AD. The drawn map features south at the top, and shows "africa" in the upper part, “Asia” in the lower part left, and “Europa” in the lower part right. Africa is symbolized as a mosque with tall buildings, which explains the Islamic influence of the map orientation: Christian maps of the period have East at the top. However, let’s have a look at the details. @histodons#histodons#maphistory
A look inside an early modern book shop: a thread for #histodons and #bookhistory experts.
Expect surprises, nowadays book buyers. I am using printed images of the chapter dedicated to bookseller's shops of the "Orbis Sensualium Pictus" (Visible World in Pictures) from John Amos #Comenius. The book was firstly published in 1658 and became a widely reprinted and variated children's textbook for centuries.
Now we see a crowded room (only men), tables with bound books, and various single-sheet items (#broadsides), a wall full of #backwardsbooks (waiting for a bookbinder), another wall full of boxes or stacked unfolded sheets, and in the middle: various prints, a map, and two globes. #maphistory