Abstract: Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Notes and References 1. J. B. Harley, ‘Imago Mundi: the first fifty years and the next ten’, Cartographica, 23:3 (1986): 1–15; Tony Campbell ‘Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography’, in The History of Cartography, Volume 6, Cartography in the Twentieth Century, ed. Mark Monmonier (Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, in preparation). 2. See Alfred Hiatt in this issue, p. 100. 3. ‘Study the historian before you begin to study the facts’ the historian is discussing: E. H. Carr, What is History? (London, Macmillan, 1961); quotation taken from Penguin edition (1987), 23. 4. J. Brian Harley, in his article, ‘My favourite map. The map as biography: Thoughts on Ordnance Survey Map, Six-Inch Sheet, Devonshire CIX,SE, Newton Abbot’, The Map Collector 41 (1987): 18–20, and online at http://www.kunstpedia.com/articles/480/1/The-Map-as-a-biography/Page1.html , reflected on the different kinds of biography he found in his map as well as, presciently, the biography of the map itself. The importance of biography as a key analytical tool for historians was stressed by Jacques Derrida.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-12-03
Language: en
Type: editorial
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