See The Guardian Tuesday, December 19, 2006, article by Giles Tremlett and the relevant article in Estrella Digital Monday, December 18, 2006, suggested by Peter van der Krogt, peter@vanderkrogt.net
Thursday, 21 December 2006
Maps in Grand Painting
Francis Herberr, RGS, f.herbert@rgs.org comments: "....A Goya portrait in oils of the 6 years-old Infante Don Luis Maria de Borbon y Vallabriga (nephewof Carlos III of Spain) of 1783 that had hitherto been in private hands (or "only slightly grubby after two centuries of hanging on the walls ofthe private palaces of a series of dukes"); as it depicts maps, and is now at Museo del Prado in Madrid for conservartion, this news mightinterest art historians, map historians, historians of scientificinstruments (etc.). It is expected to be hung later at Zaragoza's city museum. The Infante is shown "standing over a map of the world" [sic - i.e. heis standing in front of a framed cartographic outline depiction of Europe] and holding "a piece of a puzzle map of Spain in one [i.e.right] hand and a compass in the other [left]... (posted in Maphist).
Tuesday, 12 December 2006
Peter Barber's "The Map Book" in Greek
Wednesday, 6 December 2006
New issue: "e-Perimetron", Vol. 1, No.3 (Summer 2006)
The new issue of e-Perimetron the international web journal on sciences and technologies affined to history of cartography and maps is now on line (pp 178-252) with seven papers by A. W. Pearson / J. Benavides & E. Koster / E. Koster / K. C. Kowal / V. Tsioukas, M. Daniil & E. Livieratos / B. Jenny / M. Jessop.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Tuesday, 5 December 2006
History and Geographic Information
History and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The Department of History at Idaho State University invites applications for a new tenure track, assistant professorship from scholars who have extensive experience and training in the use of GIS and other tools of spatial analysis in the study of history.
Information:
http://www.isu.edu/~owenjack/grad.html
http://www.isu.edu/departments/humanr/joblist_files/history.gis.htm
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall05articles/idaho-state-univ.html
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/JAHCVIII2/articles/owenswoodworth.htm
Information:
http://www.isu.edu/~owenjack/grad.html
http://www.isu.edu/departments/humanr/joblist_files/history.gis.htm
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall05articles/idaho-state-univ.html
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/JAHCVIII2/articles/owenswoodworth.htm
Sunday, 3 December 2006
A new free web journal on Cartography
e-Perimetron is a new free international journal on sciences and technologies affined to history of cartography and maps
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