After 40 years of work, the History of Cartography project is coming to a close. But with evolving modern technology and cultural perceptions about maps, UW researchers claim cartographers’ work is ...

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Mapping the world is one of humanity's most enduring passions, something we've done with varying degrees of success for over a thousand years. Short, a geography professor at the University of ...

Embedded within a four-decade-long endeavor to document the history of cartography is a deceptively simple question: What is a map? In a world where most people interact with maps almost daily, ...

Science: Ptolemy's 'Geography, ' c. AD 150 -- Exchange: Al-Idrīsī, AD 1154 -- Faith: Hereford 'Mappamundi, ' c. 1300 -- Empire: Kangnido World Map, 1402 ...

History is often taught as if the mapping of the world began with Europe—Renaissance portolan charts, Mercator projections, imperial surveys—while Africa appears as an unmapped space, known only once ...

"This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of cartography in China. Its chief players are three maps found in tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. All maps are here. The value of The History of Cartography to those interested in maps has long been a given, and ...

Although women have always been part of the mapping landscape, their contributions to cartography have long been overlooked. Mapmaking has traditionally featured men, from Mercator's projection of the ...

Although women have always been part of the mapping landscape, their contributions to cartography have long been overlooked. Mapmaking has traditionally featured men, from Mercator’s projection of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gladys West, right, developed the mathematical models behind GPS. Although women have always been part of the mapping landscape, ...