Cartography – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:42:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Cartography – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Tormented Cartography: Tracking Tartaria on Medieval and Early Modern Western Maps https://brewminate.com/tartaria-medieval-early-modern-maps-cartography/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:02:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=272119 Explore how Western mapmakers depicted “Tartaria,” tracing its shifting meaning across medieval and early modern cartography as geography,

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]]> From Colonialism to Tourism: A History of Maps in American Culture https://brewminate.com/from-colonialism-to-tourism-a-history-of-maps-in-american-culture/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:12:30 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=249187 Maps have shaped American cultural ideas about travel, place, and ownership. Introduction From the earliest days of settlement

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]]> Mapping Chicago and the Midwest, 1688–1906 https://brewminate.com/mapping-chicago-and-the-midwest-1688-1906/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:36:19 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=199067 How have maps been used by different empires and nations to secure control of the region? Originally published

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]]> ‘Imago Mundi’: Mapping the World since Ancient Babylon https://brewminate.com/imago-mundi-mapping-the-world-since-ancient-babylon/ Thu, 02 May 2024 14:08:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=230232 A cartographic look back through history. By Iman GhoshSenior Writer and Publishing Operations ManagerVisual Capitalist The Shape of

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]]> Mapping the Russian Tsardom from the Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries https://brewminate.com/mapping-the-russian-tsardom-from-the-fourteenth-to-eighteenth-centuries/ Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:15:04 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=230288 Investigating how these precious documents circulated in the politically charged climate. By Dr. Valerie A. Kivelson1Thomas N. Tentler

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]]> Cartographic History: Maps are the Record of Humans’ Imagination of the World https://brewminate.com/cartographic-history-maps-are-the-record-of-humans-imagination-of-the-world/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 15:22:26 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=213293 Diagraming our landscape is an ancient feature of human cognition and behavior. One of the most significant word

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]]> View of Geography, Maps, and the Annals: 67 years of History https://brewminate.com/view-of-geography-maps-and-the-annals-67-years-of-history/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 15:20:30 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=222577 It is the spatial dimension that makes geography different. By Dr. Robert HickeyProfessor of GeographyCentral Washington University By

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]]> Ferdinand Hassler’s Survey of the Coast in the Early 19th Century https://brewminate.com/ferdinand-hasslers-survey-of-the-coast-in-the-early-19th-century/ Fri, 10 Mar 2023 15:09:44 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=201304 His objective was to chart the country’s coast for the benefit of the mariners sailing to and from

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]]> A Visual Encyclopedia: Medieval Cosmology and the Catalan Atlas https://brewminate.com/a-visual-encyclopedia-medieval-cosmology-and-the-catalan-atlas/ Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:01:41 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=181624 We see how one 14th-century man understood the political and ethnic realities of his world. Introduction What did

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]]> A Pacific Navigator’s Mysterious Map in the 18th Century https://brewminate.com/a-pacific-navigators-mysterious-map-in-the-18th-century/ Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:00:36 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=171850 A voyager named Tupaia guided Captain James Cook through the South Seas and drew a puzzling island-filled chart.

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