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Subject:        Re: Medieval 'projection'
Date:   Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:35:43 -0500
From:   Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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On 1/19/2012 12:31 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society
Library, UW Milwaukee wrote:
> I
> think that both Mr. Thornton and his professor might do well to consult a
> basic discussion of map-making in the Middle Ages, even an older one to
> better understand the issues.

There are a number of excellent references for medieval mapping by
Evelyn Edson (and others):

_Medieval Views of the Cosmos
Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World
The World Map 1300-1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation


_As to a recent online summary monograph re: portolan charts, see Tony
Campbell's online monograph: http://www.maphistory.info/portolan.html .
Other have alluded to Snyder's work, _Flattening the Earth_, although I
suspect the works of Gaspar, linked in earlier messages, are more recent
and up to date in their analysis.

                   Joel Kovarsky