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Cartography :

022660554X

022660568X

9780226605548

9780226605685

9780226605715

Cartography :

[Book]

the ideal and its history /

Matthew H. Edney.

Chicago :

The University of Chicago Press,

2019.

©2019

xi, 309 pages :

illustrations, maps ;

27 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing the ideal of cartography -- Seeing, and seeing past, the ideal -- Cartography's idealized preconceptions -- The ideal of cartography emerges -- Map scale and cartography's idealized geometry -- Not cartography, but mapping.

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In this book Matthew H. Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps-sea charts versus thematic maps, for example-in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.

Cartography-- Philosophy-- History.

Cartography-- Philosophy.

74.31 history of cartography.

Cartography-- Philosophy.

Edney, Matthew H.

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