[MapHist] a classic map malfunction

2011-12-23 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
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Re: [MapHist] Looking for articles or books about the history of gazetteers and itineraries as a form of writing

2011-12-05 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
from one point to another, etc. I've long thought that Ogilby's Britannia was influenced, at least in part, by the almanac tradition. Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history

Re: RES: [MapHist] Use of sheet glass

2011-11-27 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
, the Translators were at liberty to apply it to whatever was valuable and transparent. Most Authors will have *Aristophanes* to be the first Author who mentions *Glass*: Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com

Re: [MapHist] Use of sheet glass

2011-11-26 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
marketing tool for Moxon who, as we all know by now, sold globes and maps, as well as geographical playing cards. Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted

Re: [MapHist] Re: ligatures -- to use or not to use?

2011-11-25 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + On 11/23/2011 4:40 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: On 11/21/2011 2:56 PM, Daniel Strebe wrote: With regard to ligatures

Re: [MapHist] Re: ligatures -- to use or not to use?

2011-11-24 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
across this sort of thing more often than one would think in the latter half of the 17th century. Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty

Re: [MapHist] Re: ligatures -- to use or not to use?

2011-11-23 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
applicable solutions, for communications problems, which I can mindlessly apply! ;-) Happy Thanksgiving to all in the U.S.! Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history

[MapHist] ligatures -- to use or not to use?

2011-11-21 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
. ... So I would love to hear a good debate of the issues from any MapHister with an opinion on this. Should I -- or should I not -- use ligatures in my digital editions of 17th-century texts? Thanks in advance to any willing to argue the case, Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she

[MapHist] collaborative cartography

2011-11-11 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
to innovative group-mapping projects: Safecast Draws on Power of the Crowd to Map Japan's Radiation http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec11/japanradiation_11-10.html Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E

Re: [MapHist] Atlas Title Page Images

2011-11-09 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
with professional human indexers -- are the first ones to go when publishers start cutting expenses.) Nonetheless, what a nice discovery. Thanks again for the reference, Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion

[MapHist] more on 17th-century playing cards with maps

2011-10-24 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
knowledgeable than I, can enlighten us on this (Aside to Chris and Diana: I very much enjoyed Diana's piece on the Adair map playing cards in _Cairt: Newsletter of the Scottish Maps Forum_ at http://www.nls.uk/media/22598/cairt12.pdf Thanks for the pointer!) Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce

Re: [MapHist] personification of Egypt...Europa seated on bull

2011-10-02 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
the alternate depiction of Europa, who is not riding the bull.) Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht

Re: [MapHist] In The Portolan, Issue 81: Map Books from Young Readers; Sea Monsters of Olaus Magnus ; George Washington's Maps; Elizabeth Taylor's Mapmaker; Mexico's National Cartographic Museum; RS

2011-09-30 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
, and people shown on the 1539 map, plus another picture font with crest images. To learn more about (and/or purchase) Carta Marina fonts, see http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/insigne/carta-marina/ Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com

Re: [MapHist] personification of Egypt

2011-09-30 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
.* her Creator. I don't recall seeing this particular image on any maps, though, and if, indeed, it was never favored by cartographers, it would be interesting to know why not Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com

Re: [MapHist] Acknowledging Copyright

2011-08-10 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
of good practices, as well. But even if there aren't, I'm sure we can find better solutions to the postmodern problem(s) of plagiarism than simply cordoning off everything we think and say publicly with legalistic boilerplate. Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com

Re: [MapHist] Acknowledging Copyright

2011-08-08 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
the algorithms of the data mining companies will identify and root out plagiarism by mechanical means! ;-) Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted

Re: [MapHist] 'The History of Cartography' available online

2011-07-21 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
and bibliographies you keep recommending! ;-) Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions

Re: [***SPAM***] - Re: [MapHist] Cosmographiae Introduction notes

2011-06-08 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
-standard file names of the 2 attachments (with *.2 and *.3 extensions)? As far as I can tell, both attachments are innocuous text files which repeat the content of the post ... or am I missing something here? Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com

Re: [MapHist] Red Tape - That famous space shuttle photo: When is sharing stealing?

2011-05-25 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
with the technocrats in charge! ;-) Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed

Re: [MapHist] Re: Lord Burghley's Maps Crypto-Catholicism

2011-05-25 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
dissertation? I don't have time to read it now, but I'd like the information for my records so that I can look at it later when I finally get back to working on Thomas Hariot's interchange with Burghley about maps of the Americas. Thanks, Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com

Re: [MapHist] The map vs. reality

2011-05-21 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
, or any of them shall come, to take my paines in good part, wishing they were such as could yeeld every man his expectation and satisfaction Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail

Re: [MapHist] Lord Burghley's Maps

2011-05-21 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
Margaret Cavendish when re-hashing all of this half a century later, but still, I would think that a similar interest in the personal (and self-aggrandizement), as well as the political, would have factored into it. Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com

[MapHist] William of Rubruck's Isidore

2011-05-06 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
part of the earth. Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed

Re: [MapHist] The Four Surveyors

2011-05-02 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
for you. Since this scholarly argument has now turned anti-intellectual, there's no point in continuing it. Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted

Re: [MapHist] The Four Surveyors

2011-04-28 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
to even begin to judge your research or interpret the data you've amassed, especially when this involves having to read through a lot of maps and charts. That's best left to others, Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com

Re: R: FW: [MapHist] Question on Eastern old maps

2011-04-27 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
. ;-) Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message

Re: R: FW: [MapHist] Question on Eastern old maps

2011-04-25 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
(this is *sha-ch'ing* or 'killing the green') I doubt this is the kind of land survey Giulio had in mind when he first raised this topic, but I'll bet it has a very long history in China, all the same! Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com

Re: R: FW: [MapHist] Question on Eastern old maps

2011-04-25 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
with your endeavors on this front! Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions

Re: R: FW: [MapHist] Question on Eastern old maps

2011-04-21 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
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Re: R: FW: [MapHist] Question on Eastern old maps

2011-04-21 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
with mapping per se, so I don't really know whether either man had recourse to indigenous Asian maps, or not. Perhaps other MapHisters can be of more help than I with your very interesting queries And do let us know if/when you learn anything more. Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she

Re: R: FW: [MapHist] Question on Eastern old maps...Kircher

2011-04-21 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
/2010/12/24/kircher-china-monumentis-illustrata/. Excellent! Thanks, Joel. I didn't know about this before. Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted

[MapHist] The northwest passage of Moby-Duck

2011-03-07 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
the aesthetic appeal primal pull of those very cool sea monsters which embellish so many antique maps! ;-) Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted

Re: [MapHist] Dr. Hans Rosling presents the last 200 years of human health and wealth in 4 minutes

2011-02-13 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
, indeed. ;-) Thanks very much for the link, John! Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements

Re: [MapHist] Query: Arno Peters controversy

2010-10-23 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
right now! I'm not supposed to be doing anything at the moment other than getting 3 websites ready to launch by the end of this month ... to which tasks I had best return forthwith! bg In haste, Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com

Re: [MapHist] 'Fortunate Survivors: Maps and Map Fragments in the Bagford Collection'

2010-05-25 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
the *Map of the Holy Land* printed with the Bishops' Bible. So there is perhaps an oblique connection here with Bagford's mysterious collection of maps and fragments, as documented by Harper Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com

[MapHist] MoMA re-envisions the coastal view

2010-04-12 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
to this group otherwise! ;-) -- and to the MoMA exhibition website. Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht

[MapHist] Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp

2009-11-22 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
wyddowe of Christoffel of Endhoue[n] and the widow of C. Ruremond are indeed one and the same person. Can anyone help with this? Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history

[MapHist] Errata for my research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp

2009-11-22 Thread Deborah Taylor-Pearce
. (Her husband's imprint is on all titles published in 1530 and 1531, as far as I know.) Sorry about that, Deborah _ Deborah Taylor-Pearce d...@she-philosopher.com ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted