Chief-Justice Daly, President of the American Geographical Society, delivered his annual address at Chickering Hall, last evening, on the "History of Cartography Before the Time of Mercator." ...

The Indian Ocean is teeming with sea monsters in Caspar Vopel’s 1558 map of the world. A giant swordfish-like creature looks to be on a collision course with a ship, while a walrus with ...

From the evolution of humankind to the age of exploration, cartography has been an integral part of the human history. The word cartography is a combination of two word ‘carta’ which means map ...

Embedded within a four-decade-long endeavor to document the history of cartography is a deceptively simple question: What is a map? In a world where most people interact with maps almost daily, ...

The C-SPAN bus crew visited the University of Wisconsin’s special cartography collection. Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos. *This text was compiled from uncorrected ...

After 40 years of work, the History of Cartography project is coming to a close. But with evolving modern technology and cultural perceptions about maps, UW researchers claim cartographers’ work is ...