[expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Women in Cartography 1. Women in the Early Modern Map Trades 2. Women and the Modern Mapping of Place 3. Women and Pedagogy 4. Women, Cities, and Spacial Analysis [/expand] View Exhibition Checklist Aft...
[expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Women in Cartography 1. Women in the Early Modern Map Trades 2. Women and the Modern Mapping of Place 3. Women and Pedagogy 4. Women, Cities, and Spacial Analysis [/expand] View Exhibition Checklist Wom...
March 26, 2015 ~ October 22, 2015 ... This exhibition recognizes and celebrates the long overlooked role of women in the world of mapping; bringing their stories, accomplishments, and most importantly their maps to light. Curated by Alice Hudson, for...
This exhibition recognizes and celebrates the long overlooked role of women in the world of mapping; bringing their stories, accomplishments, and most importantly, their maps, to light. Curated by Alice Hudson, former Chief of the Map Division at the...
AncientOrigins.net journalist Mark Miller presents a fascinating story about the boundary debate regarding the South China Sea islands: Link to Article...
Join us at the Osher Map Library for a Romantic & Educational evening. Osher Map Library Acting Director Ian Fowler will present an enticing lecture covering the representation of love and the human body in cartography through the ages. Cash ba...
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Educational reformers in the late eighteenth century, such as Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in Switzerland, proposed that the best way to learn geography was for children to make their own maps, copying from printed masters. This practice quickly became...
The decoration on “portolan” charts of the Mediterranean Sea — all hand-drawn on sheepskin (“vellum”) — varied according to the amount that their owners were willing to pay. Whoever commissioned item 28, from one of a family of chart make...
Before the modern era of mass literacy and public instruction, education was a private and socially limited endeavor. While many geography books and atlases were printed for elite readers, initial education and further learning was conducted in hand-...
