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Historical Links between Cartography and Art
Geographical Review, 1980IN a footnote to her study of the Renaissance polymath, Leon Battista Alberti, Joan Gadol rebuked a historian of science and cartography for denying the existence of a reciprocal relationship between Renaissance painting and cartography.' Although the position of the historian was extreme, his denial pointed to an aspect of the history of cartography ...
Ronald Rees
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Analysis in historical cartography studies
Journal of Spatial Science, 1982This paper is concerned to reinforce the case for the use of analytical techniques in historical cartography. The need for such analysis is conditioned by the requirements of authenticity and accuracy. A few simple analytical techniques are discussed including chemical analysis, dating by magnetic variation, geometric identification of projections and ...
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Mapping Champlain's Travels: Restorative Techniques for Historical Cartography
Cartographica, 2010Samuel de Champlain's travels through what would become New France have been extensively documented and mapped by geographers and historians today. As conventional cartographic depictions of the routes of a European explorer and colonizer, these maps portray the locational details of Champlain's journeys but omit the emotional geographies and the ...
Margaret Wickens Pearce +1 more
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A Historical Perspective on Thematic Cartography 1
2022Terry A. Slocum +3 more
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COMPUTER CARTOGRAPHY IN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes, 1983The potential value of maps in historical geographical research has increased as a result of clearer understanding of the nature of maps and new developments in computer cartography. The computer has made possible the rapid transformation of appropriately organized sets of data into maps of many different types.
Leonard Guelke, Poh Chin Lai
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Art and Cartography: Six Historical Essays
The American Historical Review, 1989The contributors--Svetlana Alpers, Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr., Ulla Ehrensvard, Juergen Schulz, James A. Welu, and David Woodward--examine the historical links between art and cartography from varied perspectives.
Anne Godlewska, David Woodward
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Utilizing Historic Cartography in 3D for Archaeological Prospection on Alcatraz
2018 3rd Digital Heritage International Congress (DigitalHERITAGE) held jointly with 2018 24th International Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia (VSMM 2018), 2018Archaeologists have used non-destructive investigations to assess the potential and predict the presence of archaeological resources; aerial and geophysical surveys being the predominant methods to accomplish this task. Some historic sites have the benefit of many years of cartographic documentation offering up another non-destructive method of ...
Peter Gavette, Kirby Page-Schmit
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Computer assisted historical cartography: new opportunities for historical research
History and Computing, 1997This article explores historical computer mapping technology and its implementation in research on the history of settlement of the southern parts of Western Siberia. As such, this research work breaks new ground given that historical GIS projects are still relatively novel in Russia.
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Research on the History of Cartography and Historical Cartography of Canada: Retrospect and Prospect
The Canadian Surveyor, 1977The events leading to the recent organization of historical cartographers are reviewed as well as the details of studies of various historical cartographers of Canadian maps dating from the first explorers to the most recent productions. Most of these have been studies of maps as documents providing information rather than studies of the science or ...
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The digital library of historical cartography of the University of São Paulo
Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries, 2011The Digital Library of Historical Cartography of the University of Sao Paulo makes available a set of high-resolution digital versions of maps printed between the XV and the XIX centuries belonging to the University's collections. Each map is available along with extensive carto-bibliographic and biographic references, and relevant technical, editorial
Rogerio Toshiaki Kondo +4 more
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