Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2022.2044181
Garrett Dash Nelson
framing may cut off certain cross-cultural lineages, the metaphor’s spiralling permutations necessitate limits. Moreover, della Dora refreshes genealogies of Western space, which emerge as more diverse and recursive than we know. I was especially taken by less-known Byzantine mantled visions (chapter 2), in which liminal veils separate the heavens and the fallen world, over which the cosmos unfurls as a vast tabernacle. Beyond its scintillating case studies, the book contributes philosophically to map studies. Della Dora stresses the doubleness of mantle metaphors, which are forever ‘bridging seen and unseen, screening off and revealing’. Whereas cartographic discourses often enrol rhetorics of objectivity and visibility, imagining mapped space through images of mantles also allows for concealment, glimpsed depths and enfolding. Succinctly put: ‘Mantles hide’, tempering cartography’s metaphysics of presence. In tracing the vicissitudes of this resonant metaphor, della Dora unfolds a sweeping history of geographical imaginations that shows indelibly how constructions of global space are bound up with the epistemological presumptions and social preoccupations of the periods in which they emerge. The book will be indispensable for cultural historians of cartography and environmental thought as well as rewarding for scholars of the specific cultural contexts that feature in the genealogies. Further, The Mantle of the Earth has resonances beyond scholarship in that it holds out alternative ways of contemplating the earth against a backdrop of global environmental change.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2021.1960059
Darko Ogrin
offered much detail on the geographical aspects of the valley in dispute. Scholz’s impressive and wide ranging book offers much to those interested in understanding early-modern boundaries in the Holy Roman Empire. The book would benefit from the newly-published fourth volume of the History of Cartography (2020) and, possibly, with a wider engagement with important non-German scholarship on frontier studies. It is nevertheless very welcome for illuminating ideas about territorial practice, and it is hoped that the same thesis can be assessed in other areas, such as the Italian states.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2021.1960039
Jordana Dym
nity to make copies of maps collected by the Spanish naval officer Felipe Bauzá y Cañas (1764–1834), chief cartographer on Alessandro Malaspina’s expedition to the Americas, Oceania and Australasia between 1789 and 1794. As a pioneer of infographics, Humboldt also designed altitude profiles, contour lines and geographicclimatic diagrams such as those showing vegetation zonation according to altitude and latitude in his famous Géographie des plantes équinoxiales (1807). For him, epistemic drawing was heuristic, a tool for gaining knowledge; he used maps as a ‘visualized series of measurement’. This publication, which contains a helpful timeline, is an excellent basis for all who want to study Humboldt as a mapmaker.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2021.1960023
Sandra M. G. Pinto
Abstract In 1806, High Court judge Luiz Gonzaga de Carvalho e Britto published the first Portuguese manual devoted to making property-register books. In this, he advocated a curious method for surveying and drawing estate maps, one based on his own experience as a mapmaker. Britto’s aim in compiling the manual was to instruct other judges in the map-making techniques needed for registering property. In this article, Britto’s maps and method of map making, as articulated in his manual, offer a window into the practice of estate mapping in early nineteenth-century Portugal. They also convey an idea that was controversial in its time: that judges themselves should be involved in the production of estate maps. While estate mapping was common across Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in Portugal they were a rare phenomenon, hence the scarcity of these maps in archives, and the uniqueness of Britto’s example.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2021.1960055
José Manuel Malhão Pereira
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2021.1960046
Gyula Pápay
other images, such as the mythical El Dorado and the Laguna de los Xaraies (Xarayes Lake), the immense and rich lake believed to lie in the centre of the continent, while also motivating contemporary expectations. After Spain’s violent encounter with the Inca Empire, and its incommensurable wealth, the experiences reported in Spanish accounts also appeared in the Portuguese narratives, produced mainly by the Peruleiros, who managed the silver traffic along with the Spaniards. In this way, Doré’s book traces a different history of cartography from that found in the seminal works of the Mexican philosopher Edmundo O’Gorman (1906–1995). In her eyes America is equally an invention, a cross section and a synthesis of what it is supposed to be. In analysing these processes, Doré makes us think about the act of naming. She reminds us of the twentiethcentury French Jesuit Michel de Certeau’s perspective, according to which European possession of South America was effected by an act of intellectual appropriation. Doré, however, seeks to authenticate the historical implications of this act by focusing on one idea that did not prevail, the promise of America Peruana. Historicity, she shows us, is still open to reinvention.
其他图像，如神话中的El Dorado和Laguna de los Xaraies（Xarayes湖），这座巨大而富饶的湖泊被认为位于非洲大陆的中心，同时也激发了当代人的期望。在西班牙与印加帝国的暴力冲突及其无法估量的财富之后，西班牙记述中的经历也出现在葡萄牙的叙述中，主要由佩鲁莱罗斯人产生，他与西班牙人一起管理白银运输。通过这种方式，多雷的书追溯了一段不同于墨西哥哲学家埃德蒙多·奥戈尔曼（Edmundo O'Gorman，1906-1995）开创性著作的地图学历史。在她眼中，美国同样是一项发明，一个横截面，是对它应该是什么的综合。在分析这些过程时，Doré让我们思考命名的行为。她让我们想起了20世纪法国耶稣会士米歇尔·德·塞尔托的观点，根据这一观点，欧洲对南美洲的占有是由知识侵占行为影响的。然而，多雷试图通过关注一个没有盛行的想法来验证这一法案的历史意义，即美国的承诺。她向我们展示了历史性，它仍然可以被重新创造。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2021.1960081
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2021.1960054
Richard L. Pflederer
high-level academic publications. The second book, Mediterranean Cartographic Stories: Seventeenthand Eighteenth-Century Masterpieces from the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation Collection, consists of six selected papers from the second part of the Third International Conference on the Greek World in Travel Accounts and Maps, ‘Knowledge Is Power’, Cartographic Sessions, held in Nicosia at the University of Cyprus (2–4 November 2016). Edited and introduced by Panagiotis N. Doukellis, this volume focuses on three distinct cartographical domains: the production of charts and atlases in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany at the time of Ferdinando II de’ Medici (r. 1621– 1670), the quality of the information delivered by Ottoman charts, and finally the later improvement by an anonymous French traveller of the map first published by the Scottish consul and travel author Alexander Drummond (1698– 1769) in 1754. Three papers focus on Tuscan map production in the first half of the seventeenth century, a time when the Grand Duchy was developing a more aggressive policy of maritime expansion. The aim of Corradino Astengo (‘Knowing the Mediterranean: The Cartographic Workshop in the Medicis’ Leghorn’ [Livorno]) is to link the emergence of new cartographical workshops to the development of maritime activities in the port. Many chartmakers, such as Robert Dudley (1574–1649), Vincenzo Volcio (fl. 1636–1656) and Joan Olivera (fl. 1592–1643), found the Ligurian port city a good place in which to exercise their talents. Two such chartmakers, Giovanni Battista Cavallini (fl. 1634–1656) with his son Pietro (fl. 1654–1688), settled in Livorno to escape the dominance of the Maggiolo family, who held a virtual monopoly on the production of nautical charts in Genoa. The main achievements of the senior Cavallini include three charts of the Mediterranean, a world map and nine maps of the most important islands in the Mediterranean, probably derived from local large-scale portolan charts. In 1634 he designed an atlas for Ferdinando II as an instrument providing information necessary for the organization of naval expeditions while also satisfying the aesthetic tastes of an aristocracy eager to acquire symbols of power. Cavallini’s Teatro del mondo marittimo (1652) holds the attention of Emmanuelle Vagnon (‘Giovanni Battista Cavallini and the Tradition of Mediterranean Portolan Charts’), who analyses the structure and contents of its thirteen maps in order to determine to which cartographical tradition and genealogy this collection belongs. One of the most striking aspects she deals with is the refined decoration of the maps, with their profusion of rhumb lines, wind roses and graphic scales, and the way the place-names, letters and words are also part of the aesthetic display. Beautiful as it is, the Cavallini atlas is nevertheless disconnected from contemporary geographical knowledge and needs to be seen as a striking and precious emblem of seventeenth-century nobility and knighthood. For
高级学术出版物。第二本书《地中海制图故事：Sylvia Ioannou基金会收藏的十七、十八世纪杰作》由第三届希腊旅游账户和地图世界国际会议第二期的六篇精选论文组成，题为“知识就是力量”，在尼科西亚塞浦路斯大学举行（2016年11月2日至4日）。本卷由Panagiotis N.Doukellis编辑和介绍，重点介绍了三个不同的制图领域：Ferdinando II de’Medici（1621–1670年在位）时期托斯卡纳大公国的海图和地图集制作，奥斯曼海图提供的信息质量，最后，一位匿名的法国旅行者对苏格兰领事兼旅行作家亚历山大·德拉蒙德（1698-1769）于1754年首次出版的地图进行了改进。三篇论文聚焦于17世纪上半叶的托斯卡纳地图制作，当时大公国正在制定更积极的海上扩张政策。Corradino Astengo（《了解地中海：利沃诺地中海的制图讲习班》）的目的是将新的制图讲习班的出现与港口海事活动的发展联系起来。许多制图师，如Robert Dudley（1574-1649）、Vincenzo Volcio（1636-1656）和Joan Olivera（1592-1643），发现利古里亚港口城市是一个锻炼他们才能的好地方。两位这样的海图制作者，Giovanni Battista Cavallini（1634–1656年）和他的儿子Pietro（1654–1688年），为了摆脱马焦洛家族的统治而定居在利沃诺，马焦洛在热那亚几乎垄断了海图的生产。高级Cavallini的主要成就包括三张地中海地图、一张世界地图和九张地中海最重要岛屿地图，这些地图可能来源于当地的大型portolan地图。1634年，他为费迪南多二世设计了一本地图册，作为一种工具，为组织海军探险提供必要的信息，同时也满足了渴望获得权力象征的贵族的审美趣味。Cavallini的世界马里蒂莫剧院（1652年）引起了Emmanuelle Vagnon（“Giovanni Battista Cavalliny and the Tradition of Mediterranean Portolan Charts”）的注意，他分析了十三幅地图的结构和内容，以确定该收藏属于哪种制图传统和谱系。她处理的最引人注目的方面之一是地图的精细装饰，其中有大量的胡麻线、风玫瑰和图形比例尺，地名、字母和单词也是美学展示的一部分。尽管如此，卡瓦里尼地图集仍然与当代地理知识脱节，需要被视为17世纪贵族和骑士身份的醒目而珍贵的象征。对于Sean Robert（“Ferdinando II的托斯卡纳地区的十字军东征”）来说，Cavallini地图册将与托斯卡纳地区圣斯特凡诺骑士团的兴起的政治和外交背景联系在一起，这揭示了大公对奥斯曼人的侵略意图。十字军东征精神的复兴是通过地图册装饰中的符号公开宣称的。在同样的背景下，Pinar Emiralioğlu（《十七、十八世纪地中海的地理知识与帝国权力》）试图跟踪地理知识在地中海地区的传播，以了解新的海图制作技术与帝国权力加强之间的关系。在17世纪和18世纪，各国的边界被包括在内，这表明地图的主要使用者现在是政治家和外交官。尽管奥斯曼帝国也是这一现象的一部分，但本文并未对其案例进行深入研究，尽管作者确实证明了奥斯曼统治精英和制图师对知识的扩展做出了贡献。Agamemnon Tselikas（“Sylvia Ioannou收藏的奥斯曼手稿图上的地中海海岸地名”）随后检查了17世纪晚期奥斯曼港口图上的地形信息。列出了不少于842个海岸名称，揭示了提供地理信息的巨大细节，以及帝国制图师在设计质量与西方相当的地图方面取得的进展。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2021.1960071
B. Belyea
the information sent to his superiors in London was just as much shaped by Indigenous knowledge as it was by European cartography. In her introduction, Belyea notes that Fidler operated in the context of fur-trade rivalry. The HBC was founded by Royal Charter in 1670 and granted a monopoly of all the trade within the Hudson’s Bay watershed, the region known at the time as Rupert’s Land (present-day northern Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada). By the 1780s a serious challenge to that monopoly was mounted by the Northwest Company (NWC), founded in 1789 by fur traders based in Montreal. The HBC governors in London realized that accurate cartographic and scientific knowledge of their territories was needed in order to stave off NWC encroachment and preserve their position as a trading monopoly. As a result, making detailed maps became the key to business success in the fur trade and political power in Rupert’s Land. Compounding the HBC’s increasingly perilous situation was the depletion of the fur supply, which forced traders to search further inland into territory that was mostly uncharted by Europeans. Belyea argues that Fidler’s reliance on Indigenous knowledge also shaped the cartographic information he conveyed in his journals. She observes that Fidler’s journal entries were often accompanied by small sketch maps, which he said either were drawn by quick visual observation or were copies of Indigenous maps provided to him. Belyea notes that to European eyes the maps were not scientific since they were neither drawn to scale nor oriented, and thus rendered useless on their own. To Fidler, they were crucial to illustrating what he conveyed in his journals, and to historians of the fur trade they represent a clear indication that surveyors and cartographers relied on Indigenous knowledge of the spaces the trading companies sought to control. Fidler’s journals are also significant because they provide the earliest ethnographic study of the Indigenous societies living on the western plains and across the continental divide. Prior to Fidler’s work, Europeans were only vaguely aware of these people, and the few references to their existence were found in nebulous descriptions produced by explorers fifty years before Fidler arrived in the region. Belyea notes that Fidler’s detailed descriptions of Indigenous nations such as the Piikani remain to this day the most reliable documentation of a western-plains people’s seasonal movements and the buffalo hunts that sustained their way of life. Belyea also argues that much of Fidler’s observations from his time spent with the Piikani hints at a considerable appreciation and understanding of their culture. As his use of Indigenous maps demonstrates, Fidler understood that his endeavour to provide scientific surveys and records depended on Indigenous cooperation and their willingness to share geographical knowledge assembled over generations. The journals reproduced in this book give the reader
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2021.1960064
J. Black
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