Isaiah Bowman and Comparative Area
I discussed Isaiah Bowman in my article Thinking in Space, especially in the earlier, longer version. Bowman's book, The New World: Problems of Political Geography, was first published 100 years…
James Monteith Gravesite
I passed through Philadelphia as I was finishing up my article on James Monteith in Cartographic Perspectives and stopped by Laurel Hill Cemetery to see his grave. The cemetery staff…
More on Jacques Redway
Redway is still a bit of a puzzle to me. As I mentioned in my earlier post on him, he was the author of Butler's Complete Geography. The Library of…
Rhode Rage– Unusual Maps of Rhode Island
This is an unusual depiction of the Ocean State is this use of its distinct outline as a comparative area symbol on a map of the British Isles (map from…