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Mr. Dürer Comes to Washington | Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at The Library Of Congress

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Mr. Dürer Comes to Washington
November 6, 2015 by John Hessler

In the cool summer of 1901, a Jesuit priest named Joseph Fischer was searching through the small libraries found in the country houses and ancient castles of the old noble families that dot the German hinterlands. One day, in the tower of one of those castles, tucked deep into the forest outside the tiny village of Wolfegg, he happened upon a book that would change the history of cartography forever.

#cartographie #hustoire #dürrer

Computing Space IV: William Bunge and The Philosophy of Maps | Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at The Library Of Congress

▻http://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2016/02/william-bunge-and-the-philosophy-of-maps

Computing Space IV: William Bunge and The Philosophy of Maps
February 5, 2016 by John Hessler

Today’s post is the fourth of a series called,”Computing Space,” which highlights the lives and work of many of the mostly unknown cartographers, geographers, mathematicians, computer scientists, designers and architects who had a hand in the birth of today’s computer cartography, along with some of forgotten publications from the early years of GIS.

In the early years of the analytic and computational revolution in geography and cartography many of the then existing journals in the field resisted the publication of papers deemed too mathematical or computational, and so many small and short lived publications sprung up around various groups of mapmakers working to bring new technologies and techniques into the field. One such publication, whose famous yellow covers will be known to anyone who has explored the history of early computer cartography, is the “Discussion Paper” series published occasionally between 1963 and 1968 by the so-called Michigan Inter-University Community of Mathematical Geographers.

#cartographie_radicale #cartographie_critique #william_bunge

‘Map : Exploring the World,’ ‘The Curious Map Book’ and More - The New York Times

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Maps can solidify national identity, expose societal problems, illuminate trends and whip up jingoistic emotions in wartime. “The map as a concept is complex and ever changing,” the Library of Congress cartography expert John Hessler writes in his introduction to “Map: Exploring the World.” But “it is the cartographic image’s intricate and abstract visual element that is the locus of its strength and lasting appeal.”

#cartographie #pouvoir #pouvoir_des_cartes

8 Stunning Maps That Changed Cartography | WIRED

▻http://www.wired.com/2015/10/8-stunning-maps-changed-cartography

Encore une référence biblio sur la carto (il y en a de plus en plus...)

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You probably think you know what a map is. And chances are, you’re not totally wrong. Yes, maps are visual representations of how to get from A to B, but if you ask John Hessler, they’re more complex than that. “Trying to define what a map is is pretty difficult,” says Hessler. And he would know.

As a specialist in modern cartography and GIS at the Library of Congress, Hessler spends a lot of his time around maps. The Library of Congress has more than 6,000,000 in its collection, charting everything from Claudius Ptolemy’s earliest visions of the world to glowing representations of Facebook’s networking effects. In his new book Map: Exploring the World, Hessler outlines the history of maps and explains how they’ve simultaneously evolved and remained the same over thousands of years.

#cartographie #bibliographie

In a New Book, a Library of Congress Cartography Expert Draws Connections Between the World’s Newest and Oldest Maps - CityLab

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Making Connections Between the World’s Newest and Oldest Maps

An interview with John Hessler, a cartography expert at the Library of Congress and one of the people behind the new book, Map: Exploring The World.

Few people in the world know their way around a map like John Hessler does. The Library of Congress’s “Specialist in Modern Cartography and Geographic Information Science” can look at a Renaissance, bit matrix, or Minecraft map and explain what each signifies and how they all relate.

Hessler and a team of contributors have put together a stunning cartographic encyclopedia titled, Map: Exploring The World ($59.95, Phaidon). In it, 300 maps tell the story of 5,000 years of human history, just not in chronological order. Map’s layout draws connections between eras, places, and themes with each turn of the page.

#cartographie #fondamentaux #santé #afrique #ebola

How to Map a Sandwich : Surfaces, Topological Existence Theorems and the Changing Nature of Modern Thematic Cartography, 1966-1972

▻http://www.stonybrook.edu/libmap/coordinates/seriesa/no7/a7.htm

Article excellent et marrant porté à notre attention par @cdb_77

How to Map a Sandwich: Surfaces, Topological Existence Theorems and the Changing Nature of Modern Thematic Cartography, 1966-1972

Date of Publication: March 15, 2009

John Hessler
Senior Cartographic Librarian at the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Madison Bldg., Room LMB01, Washington D.C. 20540-4650.

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Abstract: This paper is meant to be the beginning of a project that examines the use of abstract mathematics and the changing ontology of mapmaking in the early years of the development of computer cartography. The history of the conceptual developments that took place during this revolutionary period in the history of mapmaking is both controversial and incomplete. Much of the primary source material has yet to be examined by historians, residing as it does in obscure journals, government archives and in obsolete software. This study provides a look at one example of this conceptual development in the early years of computer cartography through a close reading of two papers on existence theorems published by the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis. It attempts to highlight the changing conceptual and mathematical foundations of mapmaking during this period and in doing so provides a case study for the difficulties that historians of modern cartography face in researching this critical period in its history.

#cartographie #états-unis #sandwich #sémiologie #visualisation #population #démographie