The Hereford Mappa Mundi
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Earliest Star chart with Figurative Constellations
Earliest star chart with figurative constellations
Quotation from the book "Geography and Vision' by Denis Cosgrove
'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 Mauro Mappa Mundi Video
Fra Mappa Mundi Video This youtube video has some great close ups of this wonderful world map, usually on display in Venice
'The History of Cartography' definition of a map
Maps are graphic representations that facilitate a spacial understanding of things, concepts, conditions, processes, or even events in the human world
Welcome Mapping Artists!
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!
Map History/History of Cartography website
This is a 24 year old website that is continually updated - A treasure trove Map History
Online Globe Museum
Online Globe Museum This Virtual Museum was set up by a Hungarian University and now has over 100 globes to view in 3D
Abraham Oretelius Atlas 1570
Oretelius' Atlas can be seen in its entirety here Theatrvm orbis terrarvm
