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TWO NEW HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY PUBLICATIONS FROM
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'Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their
World' by Evelyn Edson. 256 pages, 246 x 176mm. Format, 8
col., 70 b/w ills., Cloth. ISBN 0 7123 4535 3. Price =A340.00
In the first volume in a new series, 'The British Library Studies in
Map History', Professor Edson, Professor of History at Piedmont
Virginia Community College, USA, makes clear that when seeking the
meaning and purpose of maps in the Middle Ages, one cannot assume that
they were used for the same purpose or had the same meaning as they do
today. The differences in structure and content can give us an
intriguing insight into the medieval world view, as expressed in maps,
i.e. - not simply a matter of measuring space, but of placing the
earth in a total philosophical and religious setting. A major
component of this setting was the passage of time. Viewing medieval
world maps not as isolated sheets of parchment, but in the context of
the manuscripts in which they appear - not necessarily geographies but
more often calendar manuscripts, scientific treatises and histories -
reveals the role maps played in medieval thought and how, in turn,
medieval thinking determined the form and content of maps.
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'The Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Mapmakers of Great
Britain and Ireland 1530-1850' by Sarah Bendall. 2 volumes, 900
pages, 246 x 189mm. Format, 13 col., 25 b/w ills., Cloth. ISBN 0
7123 4509 4. Price =A375.00
This work, in two volumes, gives details about all persons likely to
have measured and made large-scale local maps in Great Britain and
Ireland between 1530-1850. The first volume contains a substantial
introduction which discusses the history of the surveying profession
based on an analysis of the mapmakers in the dictionary, together with
lists of sources and new comprehensive indexes. The second volume
contains the bibliographical entries of each surveyor.
A first edition by Peter Eden quickly became a standard reference work.
This edition increases the number of surveyors by almost 50=25 to =
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14000 with the starting date two decades earlier. All existing entries
have been revised. Full bibliographical references have been added to
make the Dictionary a tool for further research, and organisational and
stylistic changes make the work easier to use.
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For further information on either title, please contact: The British
Library Publishing Office, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, U.K.
Tel: +44 =5B0=5D171 412 7704
Fax: +44 =5B0=5D171 412 7768
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