What’s Different about Map Making in the 19th Century?

Описание: The Washington Map Society invites you to join Matthew H. Edney (Director, History of Cartography Project, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, University of Southern Maine) for an online illustrated lecture “What’s Different about Map Making in the Nineteenth Century, and therefore in Volume Five of The History of Cartography?”

Summary: What makes the nineteenth century a distinct period in the history of cartography? Some clues arise from a comparison of the table of contents of Volumes Four, Five, and Six of The History of Cartography, dealing respectively with the Enlightenment and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Amidst similar large entries, on topics such as administrative mapping and marine charting, we find three particular topics unique to Volume Five that are distinctively characteristic of nineteenth-century cartography: the very idea of “cartography”; “colonial and imperial mapping”; and “railroad mapping.” This illustrated presentation explores these three themes to give a taste of what is to be expected in Volume Five. This volume is nearing editorial completion, and the presentation will end with a short review of the status of the series of The History of Cartography.

This talk is sponsored by the Washington Map Society with the collaboration of the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies.

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