After 40 years of work, the History of Cartography project is coming to a close. But with evolving modern technology and cultural perceptions about maps, UW researchers claim cartographers’ work is ...

Imago Mundi is the only English-language scholarly periodical devoted exclusively to the history of pre-modern maps, mapping, and map-related ideas from anywhere in the world. It was founded in Berlin ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

Embedded within a four-decade-long endeavor to document the history of cartography is a deceptively simple question: What is a map? In a world where most people interact with maps almost daily, ...

"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Plates, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Harrisonburg, Virginia." siris_sil_716485 ...

In the 20th century, the scientific community and environmental activists adopted the term Gaia – the Greek goddess personifying the Earth, the mother of all deities – to reflect the notion of the ...

"This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of cartography in China. Its chief players are three maps found in tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and ...

History is often taught as if the mapping of the world began with Europe—Renaissance portolan charts, Mercator projections, imperial surveys—while Africa appears as an unmapped space, known only once ...

Although women have always been part of the mapping landscape, their contributions to cartography have long been overlooked. Mapmaking has traditionally featured men, from Mercator’s projection of the ...

Although women have always been part of the mapping landscape, their contributions to cartography have long been overlooked. Mapmaking has traditionally featured men, from Mercator's projection of the ...