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  • Early Portland in Maps

    References to the Fore! Portland in Early Maps: The Goldilocks Model of Urban Mapping [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] References to the Fore Introduction & Credits 1. Early Portland in Maps 2. Mowat’s Burning of ...

  • Report of the Joint Select Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the State of Maine, in relation to the North-Eastern Boundary of the State.

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Bloodless Battles and Neverending Negotiations: Maine's Nineteenth Century Boundary Dispute Maps and Firsthand Accounts of the Northeast Boundary Dispute [/expand] Report of th...

  • Introduction & Credits

    References to the Fore! Introduction [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] References to the Fore Introduction & Credits 1. Early Portland in Maps 2. Mowat’s Burning of Falmouth, 1775 3. Booster Mapping of a Growing City 4. Booster Maps...

  • The Discovery of a Peninsula

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] The Island of California The Discovery of a Peninsula Revived as an Island [/expand] Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo’s 1510 romance novel, Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián), contains t...

  • The Fall of the Noble Savage

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] How the Barbarians Became Noble Savages Creating the First Native American Stereotype: Early Maps of the New World The Role of the Native in Enlightenment Cartography Beaver Wars: The Fur Trade in North America...

  • The Lemuel Moody Archives

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Lemuel Moody and the Portland Observatory The Lemuel Moody Archives [/expand] For the complete Lemuel Moody Archives Finding Aid please click here. Chart of Portland Harbour and Islands, and Harbours Adjace...

  • The Age of Reason

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Philosophy, Religion, and the Center of the Universe Ptolemy vs. Copernicus Muggletonians and the Continuation of the Geocentric Model The Age of Reason [/expand] Although most thinkers of the Enlightenment...

  • Jerusalem at the Center

    Jerusalem dominated medieval world maps, particularly after the conclusion of the Crusades. It was considered both the spiritual and geographic center of the world. It wasn’t until the discoveries of the Renaissance that cartographers discarded the...

  • Ptolemy vs. Copernicus

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Philosophy, Religion, and the Center of the Universe Ptolemy vs. Copernicus Muggletonians and the Continuation of the Geocentric Model The Age of Reason [/expand] Claudius Ptolemy (100-170 CE) was a Greek m...

  • Muggletonians and the Continuation of the Geocentric Model

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Philosophy, Religion, and the Center of the Universe Ptolemy vs. Copernicus Muggletonians and the Continuation of the Geocentric Model The Age of Reason [/expand] London, February 3, 1651, John Reeve receiv...