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Images of BergenFirst non-photography! Swipe for coloured version. Hieronymus Scholeus drew a view of <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Bergen?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bergen</a> in 1581, creating the world's oldest (known) depiction of the city, and the first of a Norwegian city at all. There was uncertainty whether the artist had ever actually been in Bergen, due to odd inconsistencies such as the palisade fence around the city which has never been there, but letters from the client to the king states the artist actually came here. The working theory is that <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Scholeus?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scholeus</a> drew it from a number of sketches after having left the city, and added a few details in post. Collected with a large number of other copper engravings of cities, this image was in the German-published series "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" (Cities of the world). Photo via University of Bergen Library: <a href="https://marcus.uib.no/instance/map/ubb-librar-f-0017.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://marcus.uib.no/instance/map/ubb-librar-f-0017.html</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Norway?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Norway</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Norge?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Norge</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/NorskPix?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorskPix</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/HistoricalMaps?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoricalMaps</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/historical?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#historical</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/MapHistory?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MapHistory</a>

Matthew EdneyBoston area <a href="https://historians.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#map</a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a> heads: tons of map history books are at Brattleboro St Books — I mean LOTS of <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a> — I grabbed a bunch but many many more still thee

Matthew EdneyThe early 15th-century "Borgia map" was made from metal with enamel inlay; the 1797 facsimile is much misunderstood. I in turn was confused by the available images online; only some timely interventions from librarians helped me sort out the material conditions! I still need to go look at actual things, though (March and May) and maybe a trip to Rome to see the original!<a href="https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2025/2/26/materiality-and-the-limits-of-internet-research-the-borgia-map-and-its-facsimiles" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2025/2/26/materiality-and-the-limits-of-internet-research-the-borgia-map-and-its-facsimiles</a><a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a>

Matthew EdneyThere's a great podcast on <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a>, <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a>, and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a>."What's Your Map?" is found on all podcast services and at <a href="https://oculi-mundi.com/podcast" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://oculi-mundi.com/podcast</a>.Host Jerry Brotton interviews scholars, writers, designers, and artists about all kinds of maps and mapping. It's as much about interests and personal history as about maps. Fascinating!The latest episode dropped this a.m., with ME (!) talking about one of my favoretist world maps (Joan Blaeu 1662 (image), the death of cartography, etc.

Matthew EdneyI’ve been awaiting this new book on late medieval and renaissance French manuscript maps as art by Camille Serchuk … just arrived!<a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a>

Matthew EdneyI broke down this morning to right a new start to the current book intro ...Fortunately, did not last long, but still ...<a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cartography</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a>

Matthew Edney<a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a> talk alert !!!!Nathan Braccio, "The Power of Mapmaking in 17th-Century New England" -- February 11, 2025 @ 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Eastern TimeShould be good !! Nathan does excellent work on English-indigenous interactions and mapping<a href="https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/the-power-of-mapmaking-in-17th-century-new-england/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.clarku.edu/events/event/the-power-of-mapmaking-in-17th-century-new-england/</a>(Image = 1634 map of Englih settlement in New England, in William Wood's *New Englands Prospect*)

Matthew EdneyPlease boost:I will be teaching H-65 Material Foundations of Map History, 1450–1900 at Rare Book School, 1–6 June 2025 !!!!!• we study maps, we print, we discuss, we learn !! • it's an intense week in Charlottesville at the original Rare Book School !! • please come !!For more info, goto <a href="https://rarebookschool.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://rarebookschool.org/</a> and go to "course schedule"; you can check out all my evaluations from past courses!<a href="https://historians.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#map</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cartography</a>

Matthew EdneyNew Book !!!!! Carla Lois’ wonderful *Terrae Incognitae: Mapping the Unknown*, just out from Brill. A far-ranging reflection on the unknown in mapping.<a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a>

Matthew EdneyNew OML donation - 1851 analytical <a href="https://historians.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#map</a> of the Haudenosaunee by Henry Lewis Morgan<a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a>

Matthew EdneyI just posted my annual list of recently published books in map history and also more conceptual works re maps and mapping.<a href="https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024/12/19/2024-books-in-map-history-plus-some-i-missed-from-2023" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024/12/19/2024-books-in-map-history-plus-some-i-missed-from-2023</a><a href="https://historians.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#map</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/bibliography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bibliography</a> Enjoy!(Image is 1500 view of Venice by Jacopo de' Barbari, from the Cleveland Museum of Art = www.clevelandart.org/art/1949.565)

Daniel BellingradtWhat helps to navigate the route and directions is the provided compass of the map: "Der Compass". Having a compass built into a navigation device with mile indicators leading to the direction of the trip's goal at the screen's top might be our present solution in cars, but it has roots in the fifteenth-century map making. Enjoy this fact, dear <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histodons</a>. <a href="https://historians.social/tags/BookHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BookHistory</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/MapHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MapHistory</a> 4/4

Daniel BellingradtProduced as a woodcut, i.e. the details cut into a block of wood before printing, the map was always in the same size and format as the very wood block used: 41 x 29 cm in stereographic projection to a scale of about 1:5,600,000.Have a look at the map yourself: <a href="https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/9a239e34-a3f9-4914-ab93-cc982cb944a0/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/9a239e34-a3f9-4914-ab93-cc982cb944a0/</a> The dots used on the map are mile-indicators for actual travelers to Rome - or for travelers of the mind. <a href="https://historians.social/tags/MapHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MapHistory</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/BookHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BookHistory</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histodons</a>2/4

Daniel BellingradtAll roads lead to Rome. Meet the earliest known European map with a scale: This woodcut "south up" map by Erhard Etzlaub offers a route to Rome - located on the top of the map - through early modern German speaking Europe. The map was printed as a single-sheet item, and was made in Nuremberg for the Holy Year 1500.Etzlaub wanted his "Rom-Weg" map to be bought, so he offered colored versions too, like the one you see, because these were more expensive. A thread for <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histodons</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a> 1/4

Matthew EdneyAnother new post for <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a> buffs on Alexander Dalrymple's spiteful exercise in map history in 1786, based on the so-called "Harleian" map. It's a fun little piece I had to cut for space. See:<a href="https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024/11/11/alexander-dalrymples-spiteful-innovation-in-map-history" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024/11/11/alexander-dalrymples-spiteful-innovation-in-map-history</a>

Matthew EdneyFor <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a> buffs, I have a new post on a precursor to modernist 20c world mappings that treat the world as a polyhedron (the image is of Bernard Cahill's 1909 construction of his butterfly map), in the 1889 application of astronomical mapping practice to the earth by Richard Proctor. It's fun and was completely new to me. See:<a href="https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024/11/3/the-first-unorthodox-modernist-mapping-of-the-world" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024/11/3/the-first-unorthodox-modernist-mapping-of-the-world</a>

Matthew EdneyMy encounter yesterday with R A Proctor's *A Student's Atlas* (1889) has led to a rabbit hole. I've written up the results:The First Unorthodox, Modernist Mapping of the World? Before Buckminster Fuller and Bernard Cahill and their angular, fragmented world maps, there was Richard A. Proctor and his Star Atlas (1870), New Star Atlas (1874), and Student’s Atlas (1889)<a href="https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024/11/3/the-first-unorthodox-modernist-mapping-of-the-world" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024/11/3/the-first-unorthodox-modernist-mapping-of-the-world</a><a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a>

Matthew EdneyI just encountered R A Proctor's "A Students Atlas" (1889) ... which prefigured 20c work by Cahill and Fuller by mapping the earth as a dodecahedron, each facet separately projected as a circle, with blisters or boils for some places ... and each circle is done on azimuthal equidistant, prefiguring Richard Edes Harrison! Need to learn more!!Fortunately internet archive has a scanned file from UWisc at <a href="https://archive.org/details/studentsatlasin00procgoog/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/studentsatlasin00procgoog/mode/2up</a><a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/atlas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atlas</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a>

Matthew Edney<a href="https://historians.social/tags/DH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DH</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fail</a>The wonderful site with translations and explanations of "The Book of Curiosities" (ca. 1200 CE from ca. 1050 CE original) is gone..I know why DH sites reach "end of life" but it's so disheartening (This was, I think, the second incarnation of the work.) At least there's a published book:Rapoport, Yossef, and Emilie Savage-Smith, eds. 2014. An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe: The Book of Curiosities. Leiden: Brill.<a href="http://cosmos.bodley.ox.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://cosmos.bodley.ox.ac.uk/</a><a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a>

Matthew Edney3 more new arrivals re <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a> and stuff … <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maphistory</a> !!Sara Caputo on early maps and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#navigation</a>Luis Alvarez on digital mapping <a href="https://historians.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GIS</a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a>Maria Lane on <a href="https://historians.social/tags/irrigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#irrigation</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/colonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonization</a> and legal disputes in settlement of New Mexico

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