Wednesday, January 20, 2010
A quick pointer to an article about Matteo Ricci’s World Map from 1602, the first Chinese map to name the Americas. The map will be on display for the next three months.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 01/20 at 02:42 PM
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
A review of some student work on the “Biography of a Map” assignment. Students consistently looked beyond the map itself, placing it in the context in order to recover the meaning it had for the original maker or the person who commissioned it. This post looks at efforts to understand three maps William Penn had made of his new colony.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 10/12 at 01:26 AM
Monday, October 17, 2011
Haverford College is about to open a exhibition on maps from Magill Library’s Special Collections. I was asked to write the caption for one of the maps, James C. Prichard’s ethnographic maps the accompany his Natural History of Man.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 10/17 at 10:49 PM
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Having looked at students’ initial efforts to write cartographic biographies, I am rethinking how I can accomplish the goals I initially set forth. Here I think about some possible ways forward.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 10/18 at 10:02 PM
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