mhedney

@mhedney@historians.social

Map historian and geographer. Mostly thoughts and news re map history. #maps #maphistory

Osher Professor in history of cartography, University of Southern Maine. Director, History of Cartography Project, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Blogs at mappingasprocess.net

Occasional pretty images, sci-fi nerdery, and things I find funny (if former social media is anything to go by)

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mhedney, to Dragonlance

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!!

mhedney, to random

Is this a Chicago thing? Two different coffee shops, both giving me two cups AND a corrugated sleeve. Why??

mhedney, to Dragonlance

For Valentine's day, a blog from the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division about cordiform maps!

https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2024/02/cosmographic-heart/?loclr=eamap

#map #maphistory #cartography

mhedney, to Dragonlance

Here’s a site for all designers, including #map makers = https://designmanifestos.org … wonderful resource!!!

GregCocks, to maps
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The History Of Cartography, The “Most Ambitious Overview Of Map Making Ever,” Is Free Online

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

https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html <-- link to digital free versions, University of Chicago Press

https://www.facebook.com/HistoryofCartographyProject/ <-- Facebook page

#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #cartographer #maps #PDF #free #online #openaccess #history #geography #commerce #trade #legal #planning #urban #culture #ancienthistory #gischat #physicalworld #representation #ancientmaps #historyofmaps #navigation #mapmaking #mapmaker #appliedscience #book #books
University of Chicago Press

photo - books - The History Of Cartography - three volumes
map - “Specimen trigesimae sextae partis ex globo terrestri trium pedum Parisin…” (1749)
map - portion - Cresques Catalan Atlas World Map 1387

mhedney,

@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”

#maphistory

Here’s a map from whatever I have on my iPad = ca. 550 BCE world map from Babylonia, discussed in Volume 1

mhedney, to random

I just love how exhibitions look a mess and then, suddenly, they come together!!! Wow! 1 hour to opening!!

mhedney, to maps

Beautiful poster for my imminent exhibition -- I really need to write the labels!!!!

#maphistory #lithography #maps #cartography

mhedney, to Dragonlance

xkcd strike again with #map #cartography #maphistory humor ...

https://xkcd.com/2854/

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Hey geeks, what are your thoughts on the use of math where we don't have good data? E.g. suppose you want to say "I think fusion reactors will be used at [rate] by [year] based on guesses from older tech adoption." Like, you can do a math model, but it doesn't seem obviously better to me than saying "it's path dependent." The math is a kind of ritual you can perform, but provides no new information.

mhedney,

@ZachWeinersmith I feel that economists would disagree!

mhedney, to China

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

University of Chicago Press

#maphistory #cartography #maps

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Some red hot fire from Augustus de Morgan, on an 1856 theory of comets:

"The title explains the book better than the book explains the title."

mhedney,

@ZachWeinersmith I always like Samuel Johnson’s comment: “The work is both original and interesting. Unfortunately the parts that are interesting are not original, and the parts that are original are not interesting.”

mhedney, to random

Another shot of the most photogenic building in Wisconsin, crowded out by the crap surrounds

jdmccafferty, to random
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The wheel of life, after Cornelis Anthonisz., 1558 (Rijksmuseum)

mhedney,

@jdmccafferty cool - with a #map too! #maphistory

bibliolater, to anthropology
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"Those ancient humans who might have scratched directions in the sand or carved lines on wood were the first to practice the art of symbolic representation in the form of a map." https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/oldest-maps-world #History #Anthropology #Map #Cartography #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @anthropology

Source: https://twitter.com/laphamsquart/status/1666465537533313024

mhedney,

@bibliolater @histodon @histodons @anthropology sorry to say, but this is not a good history of maps in prehistory in Europe, and the parent book is deeply problematic. One fundamental point of framing of the latter: how can anyone say, as the author does, that Venice in mid-15c was “medieval” … or Iberia for that matter.

mhedney,

@bibliolater @histodon @histodons @anthropology And as for prehistoric maps, there are so many assumptions and anachronisms entailed in saying X artifact was a map, that certainty is impossible; application of basic critical analysis means they are much more likely not maps.

mhedney,

@bibliolater @histodon @histodons @anthropology The use of a late 19c construction (never re-construction) of the map ad mentem Eratosthenes is likely not the author’s doing, but the use of a world map to illustrate a piece about detailed maps of place reveals the deep rooted myth of cartography.

mhedney,

@independentpen @bibliolater @histodon @histodons @anthropology (a) the quest to “re”-construct the maps “in the mind of” or “on the table before” some ancient writer or philosopher — even the oral “Homer” is a post-1780 endeavor that makes modern-style maps from textual references. The constructs are purely modern.

mhedney,

@independentpen @bibliolater @histodon @histodons @anthropology (b) “cartography” emerged in 19c as idealization that all the things we call maps, plans, charts are all part of the same process of turning the world to paper; the ideal was concretized with early 20c modernism and still holds conceptual sway

mhedney,

@independentpen @bibliolater @histodon @histodons @anthropology (c) personal plug: see my last book “Cartography: The Ideal and It’s History” (2019) … and await, no doubt with bated breath(!), the follow up “The Map: Concepts and Histories” (whenever I can finish it)

mhedney,

@independentpen @bibliolater @histodon @histodons @anthropology best overview remains C Delano Smith in vol 1 of “The History of Cartography” - free at https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V1/Volume1.html. The Bedolini petroglyph mentioned in the article is a Bronze Age original. It’s v hard to identify a map w/out context!

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