Emma Willard's Maps of Time
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Jeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
in Fawcett’s day the Society was helping to engineer one of the most incredible feats of humankind: the mapping of the world. Perhaps no deed, not the building of the Brooklyn Bridge or the Panama Canal, rivals its scope or human toll.
David Grann • The Lost City of Z
The effect upon the study of mapmaking was decisive. Instead of analysing the subjective and aesthetic elements of map design, Robinson’s map communication model demanded a new account of the functional and cognitive aspects of maps. The result was an examination of mapping as a process, explaining how mapmakers collected, stored and communicated g... See more