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{"title":"Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion: Mapping Stories and Movement through Time","authors":"Garrett Dash Nelson","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2044181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2044181","url":null,"abstract":"framing may cut off certain cross-cultural lineages, the metaphor’s spiralling permutations necessitate limits. Moreover, della Dora refreshes genealogies of Western space, which emerge as more diverse and recursive than we know. I was especially taken by less-known Byzantine mantled visions (chapter 2), in which liminal veils separate the heavens and the fallen world, over which the cosmos unfurls as a vast tabernacle. Beyond its scintillating case studies, the book contributes philosophically to map studies. Della Dora stresses the doubleness of mantle metaphors, which are forever ‘bridging seen and unseen, screening off and revealing’. Whereas cartographic discourses often enrol rhetorics of objectivity and visibility, imagining mapped space through images of mantles also allows for concealment, glimpsed depths and enfolding. Succinctly put: ‘Mantles hide’, tempering cartography’s metaphysics of presence. In tracing the vicissitudes of this resonant metaphor, della Dora unfolds a sweeping history of geographical imaginations that shows indelibly how constructions of global space are bound up with the epistemological presumptions and social preoccupations of the periods in which they emerge. The book will be indispensable for cultural historians of cartography and environmental thought as well as rewarding for scholars of the specific cultural contexts that feature in the genealogies. Further, The Mantle of the Earth has resonances beyond scholarship in that it holds out alternative ways of contemplating the earth against a backdrop of global environmental change.","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"126 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42072794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kartografski zakladi slovenskega ozemlja / Cartographic Treasures of Slovenian Territory","authors":"Darko Ogrin","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2021.1960059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2021.1960059","url":null,"abstract":"offered much detail on the geographical aspects of the valley in dispute. Scholz’s impressive and wide ranging book offers much to those interested in understanding early-modern boundaries in the Holy Roman Empire. The book would benefit from the newly-published fourth volume of the History of Cartography (2020) and, possibly, with a wider engagement with important non-German scholarship on frontier studies. It is nevertheless very welcome for illuminating ideas about territorial practice, and it is hoped that the same thesis can be assessed in other areas, such as the Italian states.","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"73 1","pages":"254 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49569975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain: A Critical Edition; Alexander von Humboldt: The Complete Drawings from the American Travel Diaries","authors":"Jordana Dym","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2021.1960039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2021.1960039","url":null,"abstract":"nity to make copies of maps collected by the Spanish naval officer Felipe Bauzá y Cañas (1764–1834), chief cartographer on Alessandro Malaspina’s expedition to the Americas, Oceania and Australasia between 1789 and 1794. As a pioneer of infographics, Humboldt also designed altitude profiles, contour lines and geographicclimatic diagrams such as those showing vegetation zonation according to altitude and latitude in his famous Géographie des plantes équinoxiales (1807). For him, epistemic drawing was heuristic, a tool for gaining knowledge; he used maps as a ‘visualized series of measurement’. This publication, which contains a helpful timeline, is an excellent basis for all who want to study Humboldt as a mapmaker.","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"73 1","pages":"242 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44796433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Judges as Mapmakers: How to Create an Estate Map in Early-Nineteenth-Century Portugal","authors":"Sandra M. G. Pinto","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2021.1960023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2021.1960023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 1806, High Court judge Luiz Gonzaga de Carvalho e Britto published the first Portuguese manual devoted to making property-register books. In this, he advocated a curious method for surveying and drawing estate maps, one based on his own experience as a mapmaker. Britto’s aim in compiling the manual was to instruct other judges in the map-making techniques needed for registering property. In this article, Britto’s maps and method of map making, as articulated in his manual, offer a window into the practice of estate mapping in early nineteenth-century Portugal. They also convey an idea that was controversial in its time: that judges themselves should be involved in the production of estate maps. While estate mapping was common across Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in Portugal they were a rare phenomenon, hence the scarcity of these maps in archives, and the uniqueness of Britto’s example.","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"73 1","pages":"179 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59456898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Le ‘Grand routier’ de Pierre Garcie dit Ferrande; instructions pour naviguer sur les mers du Ponant à la fin du Moyen Âge","authors":"José Manuel Malhão Pereira","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2021.1960055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2021.1960055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"73 1","pages":"250 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41756292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Amerigo Vespucci: The Historical Context of His Explorations and Scientific Contribution","authors":"Gyula Pápay","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2021.1960046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2021.1960046","url":null,"abstract":"other images, such as the mythical El Dorado and the Laguna de los Xaraies (Xarayes Lake), the immense and rich lake believed to lie in the centre of the continent, while also motivating contemporary expectations. After Spain’s violent encounter with the Inca Empire, and its incommensurable wealth, the experiences reported in Spanish accounts also appeared in the Portuguese narratives, produced mainly by the Peruleiros, who managed the silver traffic along with the Spaniards. In this way, Doré’s book traces a different history of cartography from that found in the seminal works of the Mexican philosopher Edmundo O’Gorman (1906–1995). In her eyes America is equally an invention, a cross section and a synthesis of what it is supposed to be. In analysing these processes, Doré makes us think about the act of naming. She reminds us of the twentiethcentury French Jesuit Michel de Certeau’s perspective, according to which European possession of South America was effected by an act of intellectual appropriation. Doré, however, seeks to authenticate the historical implications of this act by focusing on one idea that did not prevail, the promise of America Peruana. Historicity, she shows us, is still open to reinvention.","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"73 1","pages":"245 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47449112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ARTICLES IN RECENT ISSUES","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2021.1960081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2021.1960081","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"73 1","pages":"304 - 304"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45191791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Historical Sea Charts: Visions and Voyages through the Ages","authors":"Richard L. Pflederer","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2021.1960054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2021.1960054","url":null,"abstract":"high-level academic publications. The second book, Mediterranean Cartographic Stories: Seventeenthand Eighteenth-Century Masterpieces from the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation Collection, consists of six selected papers from the second part of the Third International Conference on the Greek World in Travel Accounts and Maps, ‘Knowledge Is Power’, Cartographic Sessions, held in Nicosia at the University of Cyprus (2–4 November 2016). Edited and introduced by Panagiotis N. Doukellis, this volume focuses on three distinct cartographical domains: the production of charts and atlases in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany at the time of Ferdinando II de’ Medici (r. 1621– 1670), the quality of the information delivered by Ottoman charts, and finally the later improvement by an anonymous French traveller of the map first published by the Scottish consul and travel author Alexander Drummond (1698– 1769) in 1754. Three papers focus on Tuscan map production in the first half of the seventeenth century, a time when the Grand Duchy was developing a more aggressive policy of maritime expansion. The aim of Corradino Astengo (‘Knowing the Mediterranean: The Cartographic Workshop in the Medicis’ Leghorn’ [Livorno]) is to link the emergence of new cartographical workshops to the development of maritime activities in the port. Many chartmakers, such as Robert Dudley (1574–1649), Vincenzo Volcio (fl. 1636–1656) and Joan Olivera (fl. 1592–1643), found the Ligurian port city a good place in which to exercise their talents. Two such chartmakers, Giovanni Battista Cavallini (fl. 1634–1656) with his son Pietro (fl. 1654–1688), settled in Livorno to escape the dominance of the Maggiolo family, who held a virtual monopoly on the production of nautical charts in Genoa. The main achievements of the senior Cavallini include three charts of the Mediterranean, a world map and nine maps of the most important islands in the Mediterranean, probably derived from local large-scale portolan charts. In 1634 he designed an atlas for Ferdinando II as an instrument providing information necessary for the organization of naval expeditions while also satisfying the aesthetic tastes of an aristocracy eager to acquire symbols of power. Cavallini’s Teatro del mondo marittimo (1652) holds the attention of Emmanuelle Vagnon (‘Giovanni Battista Cavallini and the Tradition of Mediterranean Portolan Charts’), who analyses the structure and contents of its thirteen maps in order to determine to which cartographical tradition and genealogy this collection belongs. One of the most striking aspects she deals with is the refined decoration of the maps, with their profusion of rhumb lines, wind roses and graphic scales, and the way the place-names, letters and words are also part of the aesthetic display. Beautiful as it is, the Cavallini atlas is nevertheless disconnected from contemporary geographical knowledge and needs to be seen as a striking and precious emblem of seventeenth-century nobility and knighthood. For","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"73 1","pages":"249 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41813220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When Maps Become the World","authors":"B. Belyea","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2021.1960071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2021.1960071","url":null,"abstract":"the information sent to his superiors in London was just as much shaped by Indigenous knowledge as it was by European cartography. In her introduction, Belyea notes that Fidler operated in the context of fur-trade rivalry. The HBC was founded by Royal Charter in 1670 and granted a monopoly of all the trade within the Hudson’s Bay watershed, the region known at the time as Rupert’s Land (present-day northern Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada). By the 1780s a serious challenge to that monopoly was mounted by the Northwest Company (NWC), founded in 1789 by fur traders based in Montreal. The HBC governors in London realized that accurate cartographic and scientific knowledge of their territories was needed in order to stave off NWC encroachment and preserve their position as a trading monopoly. As a result, making detailed maps became the key to business success in the fur trade and political power in Rupert’s Land. Compounding the HBC’s increasingly perilous situation was the depletion of the fur supply, which forced traders to search further inland into territory that was mostly uncharted by Europeans. Belyea argues that Fidler’s reliance on Indigenous knowledge also shaped the cartographic information he conveyed in his journals. She observes that Fidler’s journal entries were often accompanied by small sketch maps, which he said either were drawn by quick visual observation or were copies of Indigenous maps provided to him. Belyea notes that to European eyes the maps were not scientific since they were neither drawn to scale nor oriented, and thus rendered useless on their own. To Fidler, they were crucial to illustrating what he conveyed in his journals, and to historians of the fur trade they represent a clear indication that surveyors and cartographers relied on Indigenous knowledge of the spaces the trading companies sought to control. Fidler’s journals are also significant because they provide the earliest ethnographic study of the Indigenous societies living on the western plains and across the continental divide. Prior to Fidler’s work, Europeans were only vaguely aware of these people, and the few references to their existence were found in nebulous descriptions produced by explorers fifty years before Fidler arrived in the region. Belyea notes that Fidler’s detailed descriptions of Indigenous nations such as the Piikani remain to this day the most reliable documentation of a western-plains people’s seasonal movements and the buffalo hunts that sustained their way of life. Belyea also argues that much of Fidler’s observations from his time spent with the Piikani hints at a considerable appreciation and understanding of their culture. As his use of Indigenous maps demonstrates, Fidler understood that his endeavour to provide scientific surveys and records depended on Indigenous cooperation and their willingness to share geographical knowledge assembled over generations. The journals reproduced in this book give the reader","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"73 1","pages":"262 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46546913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Town: Prints & Drawings of Britain before 1800","authors":"J. Black","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2021.1960064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2021.1960064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"73 1","pages":"258 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46416007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}