Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography最新文献

{"title":"New Light on John Rocque: His Career as Artist-Engraver and His Two Great City Maps of London (1746) and Dublin (1756)","authors":"J. Montague","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2042125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2042125","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the context of the sparse documentary evidence for the important mid-eighteenth-century mapmaker John Rocque, this article looks to examine the nature and development of the Huguenot’s professional career through a closer consideration of a broader sampling of his output than has previously been the case. This entails an acknowledgement of the importance of his work as a decorative and topographical engraver, which predates his more famous city and county maps, as well as a sustained consideration of his last great original city plan, An Exact Survey of Dublin. This was Rocque’s only house-by-house city map, one over which he had full control and that is more representative of his map making than the 24-sheet London map for which he is generally more famous. Rocque’s move from estate surveyor to city mapmaker is considered in the light of the previously only partly explored input into the surveying methodology of the London map by the Royal Society’s secretary Peter Davall. Attention is also drawn to two previously unpublished letters by Rocque to his nephew in Mannheim, written the year before Rocque went to Dublin in 1754, and which point to Rocque’s expectations of his own demise.","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48825952","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":null,"pages":null},"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":"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":null,"pages":null},"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":"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":"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":null,"pages":null},"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":"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":null,"pages":null},"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":"Next International Conference on the History of Cartography","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2021.1960011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2021.1960011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45818312","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":null,"pages":null},"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}

{"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":null,"pages":null},"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}