Comments on: Historical Maps

Historical Maps

plep — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:35:23 -0800

Online Historical Map Exhibits from the Smith Centre for Cartographic Education. Nice collection - take a look at the Columbus Letter, Portuguese America and the exhibit on diasporas.

By: taz

taz — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:38:05 -0800

Very nice, plep! I can't believe they haven't included an image of world map shower curtain in their "Puzzles and Wraps and Oddball Maps" section. In fact, I wish that section had a lot more images - I just can't get enough oddball maps. Here's a nice inkwell globe for you, and a tellurium and an astrolabe for all your clockwork universe needs! Actually, here's a Java Astrolabe that "displays modern versions of four types of medieval astrolabe". Kind of fun, in a mappy sort of way

By: .kobayashi.

.kobayashi. — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:14:24 -0800

cool site. thanks plep! i have some colleagues who are very interested in the development of old maps, reading detail over a concurrent reading of the expansion of the global political economy. mapmaking was/is doubtlessly an extraordiarily important aspect of incorporation.

By: jaronson

jaronson — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:29:02 -0800

"Maps permeate our lives in ways that are often unacknowledged."