Library Guides: Earth Sciences &amp; Map Library Exhibits: Famous Cartographers

Famous Cartographers Throughout the Ages

Location: Earth Sciences and Map Library (50 McCone)

Reading Room

Dates: Fall Semester 2018

Curated by: Erica Newcome

The history of cartography dates back 14,000 years ago when the earliest maps were created. Cartography has grown in value with the use of the Internet, World Wide Web, and Global Navigation Satellite Systems and with all of the current advances in technology it continues to be an important field. Throughout history there have been cartographers all over that have created maps which influenced society and the future of cartography. This exhibit displays books, atlases, and maps either by or about notable cartographers that created maps which had a significant effect on the field of cartography and the world.

(Clarke, Keith C. "Cartography." Cartography - Geography - Oxford Bibliographies, Oxford University Press, 20 Dec. 2016, www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199874002/obo-9780199874002-0075.xml?rskey=Mk3oeG&result=22. Accessed 16 Aug. 2018.)

Some of the Cartographers mentioned in this LibGuide:

Muhammad al-Idrisi	Joan Blaeu	Grafton Tyler Brown
Nicolas de Fer	Eratosthenes	Paul J. Goode
Diego Gutierrez	Tom Harrison	Fra Mauro
Gerardus Mercator	Abraham Ortelius	Phyllis Persall
Arno Peters	Gretchen N. Peterson	Claudius Ptolemy
Shanawdithit	Inō Tadataka	Marie Tharp
Philip Turnor	Juan Jose Valdes	Martin Waldseemüller

Books, Atlases, and Maps on Exhibit

Ancient Perspectives by Richard J. A. Talbert
Call Number: GA205 .A64 2012
ISBN: 9780226789378
Publication Date: 2012
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time--Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE--to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made.
The Art of the Map by Dennis Reinhartz
Call Number: GA108.7 .R45 2012
ISBN: 9781402765926
Publication Date: 2012
This lavishly illustrated history of the golden age of cartography, from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, explores not only the embellishments on maps but also what they reveal about the world in which they were created.
Atlas Major Francia by Joan Blaeu
Call Number: f G1015 .B482 2006
Publication Date: 2006
Maps of France from Joan Blaeu's exquisite world atlas of 1665. The finest and most comprehensive baroque atlas was Joan Blaeu's exceptional Atlas Maior, completed in 1665.
Chicago mapmakers : essays on the rise of the city's map trade by Michael P. Conzen
Call Number: GA421 .C48 1984
Circumference by Nicholas Nicastro
Call Number: QB291 .N53 2008
Publication Date: 2008
How do you measure the size of the planet you're standing on? Circumference is the story of what happened when one man asked himself that very question. Nicholas Nicastro brings to life one of history's greatest experiments when an ancient Greek named Eratosthenes first accurately determined the distance around the spherical earth.
Circumference : Eratosthenes and the ancient quest to measure the globe by Nicholas Nicastro
Call Number: QB291 .N53 2008
Publication Date: 2008
A Directory of Cartographic Inventors by Mark Monmonier, etc.
Call Number: GA102.25.M66 2018
Publication Date: 2018
As its title and subtitle imply, this book is a collection of short biographies of people awarded United States patents for inventions intended to improve map use or map making.
Geographers' street plan of Canterbury by Phyllis Pearsall
Call Number: G5754.C25 1970 .G4
Publication Date: 1970?
This map is based upon the Ordnance Survey maps with the sanction of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office.
GIS cartography : a guide to effective map design by Gretchen N. Peterson
Call Number: GA105.3 .P47 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Mapmaker by Barbara Mitchell As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides and his Cree wife, Turnor travelled 15,000 miles by canoe and foot between 1778 and 1792 to produce ten maps, culminating in his magnum opus, a map that was the foundation of all northern geographic knowledge at that time. Barbara Mitchell's biography brings to life the man who taught David Thompson and Peter Fidler how to survey. In her search for Turnor's story, Mitchell discovers her own Cree-Orkney ancestry and that of thousands of others who are descendants of Turnor and his Cree wife.
Call Number: GA473.6.T87 M58 2017
Mapmakers of the sixteenth century and their maps : bio-bibliographies of the cartographers of Abraham Ortelius, 1570 : based on Leo Bagrow's A. Ortelii Catalogus cartographorum by Robert W. Karrow, Jr.
Call Number: GA198 .K37 1993
Publication Date: 1993
Maps and Prints of Paolo Forlani by David Woodward
Call Number: GA284.I8 .W6 1990
Publication Date: 1990
Map Worlds by Will C. van den Hoonaard
Call Number: GA203 .V36 2013
ISBN: 9781554589326
Publication Date: 2013
Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil.
The Mercator Atlas of Europe by Marcel Watelet; James R. Akerman; Peter M. Barber; Arthur Durst; Mireille Pastoureau
Call Number: f G1792 .M413 1997
Publication Date: 1998
Mrs P's journey by Sarah Hartley
Call Number: GA793.7.P32 H37 2001
Publication Date: 2001
Peters Atlas of the World by Arno Peters
Call Number: f G1021 .P4 1990
Publication Date: 1990
Based on a totally new principle, that of equality of scale and area, Peter Atlas of the World allows the user to see the world as it really is. In addition to nearly 100 pages of color maps, the atlas includes 246 thematic world maps, all in color, offering a complete, in-depth picture of today's world.
Ptolemy's Geography by J. Lennart Berggren (Translator); Alexander Jones (Translator); Ptolemy
Call Number: GA881.1 .B47 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Ptolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time.
Rand Mcnally Goode's World Atlas by Veregin
Call Number: G1019 .G671 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Goode's World Atlas Hardbound, 22nd Edition, Reflects World Changes, Hundreds of physical, political and thematic maps, as well as graphs, tables and a pronunciation index.
Soundings by Hali Felt
Call Number: GA407.T43 F45 2012
Her maps of the ocean floor have been called "one of the most remarkable achievements in modern cartography", yet no one knows her name. Soundings is the story of the enigmatic, unknown woman behind one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. Before Marie Tharp, geologist and gifted draftsperson, the whole world, including most of the scientific community, thought the ocean floor was a vast expanse of nothingness. In 1948, at age 28, Marie walked into the newly formed geophysical lab at Columbia University and practically demanded a job. The scientists at the lab were all male; the women who worked there were relegated to secretary or assistant.
Studies on al-Idrīsī by Fuat Sezgīn
Call Number: G93 .I375 1992
Women and Cartography in the Progressive Era by Christina E. Dando
Call Number: GA405 .D36 2018
In the twenty-first century we speak of a geospatial revolution, but over one hundred years ago another mapping revolution was in motion. Women's lives were in motion: they were playing a greater role in public on a variety of fronts. As women became more mobile (physically, socially, politically), they used and created geographic knowledge and maps. The maps created by American women were in motion too: created, shared, distributed as they worked to transform their landscapes.
The World of Gerard Mercator by Andrew Taylor
Call Number: GA923.M37 T39 2004
Publication Date: 2004
A biography of the mapmaker who revolutionized geography.
A World of Innovation by Gerhard Holzer
Call Number: GA231 .W67 2015
Publication Date: 2015
This book brings together the latest research on Mercator with a view to his sources and his relationships with other scientific disciplines and cartographers of his time, as well as his role in the wider worlds of Renaissance cartography and Humanism.