Category Archives: Cartography

A Series of Maps of the World as Known at Different Periods

Posted on May 24, 2012 by

From Edward Quin’s An Historical Atlas; In a Series of Maps of the World as Known at Different Periods (1830) The above image is from 1498: The Discovery Of America. Via: the David Rumsey Map Collection and Cartophile.

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Princeton historian Ben Schmidt’s visualization of all the shipping routes taken by Dutch, Spanish, and English vessels between 1750 and 1850.

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On Exactitude in Science

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Mapping the War in Afghanistan

Posted on July 26, 2010 by

Click the image to go to the Guardian’s Afghan War Logs.

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Why are we changing maps?

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Geography Against Capitalism: Harvey avec Reclus

Posted on June 9, 2010 by

In jointly approaching Marxism and anarchism to draw from them intellectual and strategic resources for contemporary anti-capitalism can we avoid the tiresome alternative between the production of sterile doctrinal hybrids, on the one hand, and the neurotic revisiting of the … Continue reading →

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