Heffernan, Michael (Author)
Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography
Volume: Supp.
Pages: 5-20
Edition Details: Part of a Series: People, Places, and Ideas in the History of Cartography
Language: English
This essay considers how maps became implicated in historical inquiry, with particular reference to the city of Paris. Three interrelated episodes are discussed, from the early eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, each associated with specific mapmakers and collectors whose activities shaped the early development of map history. These episodes reveal how maps were historicized in different ways in this period, initially as images created in the present to reveal the past and eventually as objects of historical interest in their own right. It is further argued that this intellectual shift was associated with a growing awareness, especially among state officials, that the study and collection of historic maps had important geopolitical implications. In tracing this story across three episodes in a single urban setting, the essay seeks to make larger observations about the relationship between the map as a visual representation, the map collection as an urban `assemblage' of geographical information, and the city as a physical environment.
...MoreArticle Heffernan, Michael (2015) Introduction: People, Places, and Ideas in the History of Cartography. Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 2-4).
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