The next July, 15th, coinciding with the 29 International Cartographic Conference of International Cartographic Association (ICA), the workshop Cartography as a Cultural Encounter: How East and West have Mapped and Influenced Each Other will take place in Tokyo. It is organized by two ICA commissions, the Commission about History of cartography and the Commission about Topographic Cartography, and […]
The Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana (AISU) organices every two years a congress about urban history, where experts talk about, among other things, the representation of the city. The current edition will take place in Bologna, in September, 11th to 14th. The motto is The Global city. The urban condition as a pervasive phenomenon and a great number of sessions […]
As we announced here, the last January, 16th the presentation of the book History of urban cartography in Spain: models and realizations had place in the Government Delegation of Catalonia. The act was presented by the Government Delegate, Teresa Cunillera Mestres; the director of the Development Area of the Government Delegation, Estanislau Vidal-Folch de Balanzó, moderated it; and participated […]
The Geography and History Faculty of University of Barcelona offers a Course of introduction to history of cartography in February, 6th to 8th. The course is promoted by the GEHC and will be directed by Francesc Nadal, Bárbara Polo y Meritxell Gisbert. The activity is public and free. In total, it will have 19 class hours and 6 of autonomous work. The activity program […]
One of the greatest pleasures of being lost between files and bookshelves of an archive is to find something unexpectedly. This is the case that happened to our mate Bárbara Polo, who identified some fragments of a manuscript copy of Ptolomeo over parchment kept in the blank pages of a libro de fábrica (bind collection of […]
The Vinland map is a controversial and famous world map because it would show the arrival of navigants to America in 11th century. It is accepted that it is a fake but it continues being an issue of interest. John Paul Floyd, a Scottish researcher interested in weird books and erudite mysteries, has just published A Sorry […]
On December 12th Wednesday, 2018, at 3:00 P.M., it a Italian-Spanish Seminar Circolazione dei saperi e utilità delle conoscenze. La cartografia e le altre fonti di epoca moderna nelle ricerche attuali will take place at the Seminar Room of the Spanish School of History and Arqueology in Rome.The seminar has as main point of the discussion the cartography as […]
Until May 19th, 2019 the exhibition Mapping Contagion: Representing Infectious Disease in New York City can be visited at the New York Public Library. The show embarnices more than a century of efforts for representing cartographically the distribution and development of infectious diseases in New York, starting by the maps of Valentine Seaman related to yellow fever in […]