MAPPING RESOURCES

https://www.bl.uk/maps/articles/european-globes-of-the-17th-and-18th-centuries?_ga=2.118589641.1785556273.1620068368-11838626.1619465146  

 

 

Earliest star chart with figurative constellations  

Star Myths - Theoi.com  

 

 China, 700AD British Library

Live Moon Map  

 

The Map Poem by Elizabeth Bishop  

 

                                                                      Online Moon above  

 

Home of the William Smith Map The Geological Society  

Shaanxi to Sichuan  

 

 

The Selden Map   - Bodleian Library Website  Academic Article - Selden Map

 

Raymond Lull  

                                              The Gough Map - digital map

  Ortelius Maps Video

  Mapping Odysseus' Journey hmapmaker.nationalgeographic.org

 

 

  The William Blake Archive

Mercator Globe - Maritime Museum  

Mappa Mundi Exploration  

  'Mapping', the cognitive and creative process rather than the scientific and design aspects of map-making, has more than one meaning. Most simply, it refers to the locating and way-finding practices of recording places and things in space, for example the charting activities traditionally employed by navigators that that produced costal rutters or portolani. But mapping also suggests more broadly cognitive and imaginative processes of discovering and denoting our place within the world, and of ordering the worlds we experience through spacial representations: graphically, pictorially, even narratively and performatively. 

Fra Mappa Mundi Video   This youtube video has some great close ups of this wonderful world map, usually on display in Venice

Maps are graphic representations that facilitate a spacial understanding of things, concepts, conditions, processes, or even events in the human world

The National Archives - Maps and Plans  

Picturing Places Map Article BL  

 This Blog holds a collection of links to online mapping resources including library and museum pages featuring historic maps, 3D online globes, live moon maps and links to dropbox files of my powerpoint slides. Requests and enquiries about mapping are welcome!

Letts Popular Star Map 1883

 

Catalan Atlas  

Mercator Terrestrial Globe 3D  

 

 

Map Projections  

 This is a 24 year old website that is continually updated - A treasure trove Map History

Miniature Maps  

Royal Geographical Society  

David Rumsey Map Collection  

The History of Cartography  

John Flamstead Atlas  

Online Globe Museum   This Virtual Museum was set up by a Hungarian University and now has over 100 globes to view in 3D

Oretelius' Atlas can be seen in its entirety here Theatrvm orbis terrarvm