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Historical of Cartography
Dr. Dennis Reinhartz
University of Texas at Arlington
Fall, 1994

"For the child, in love with prints and maps....Oh! how wide the world by lamplight! "
--Baudelaire

Required Texts:
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Discoverers. New York: Random House, 1983.
Brown, Lloyd A. The Story of Maps. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977.
Buisseret, David (ed.). From Sea Charts to Satellite Images: Interpreting North American History Through Maps. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Claudius Ptolemy. The Geography. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1991.
Turnbull, David. Maps are Territories: Science is an Atlas. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Schedule:
August 31--Introduction: Maps, Mapping, and Mapmaking-- What Is a Map?

September 7--Research in the History of Cartography
R. Arnheim, "The Perception of Maps. "
J.B. Harley, "The Evaluation of Early Maps: Towards a Methodology."
D. Woodward, "The Study of the History of Cartography: A Suggested Framework."

14--Early Mapping to the Middle Ages
W. Davenport, "Marshall Islands Navigational Charts. "
D. Woodward, "Reality, Symbolism, Time, and Space in Medieval World Maps."

21--Research

28-- The Cartography of Asia and Islam

October 5--Renaissance Cartography
Cartography and Exploration
The Age of Atlases
The Geography.
12--The Cartography of the Enlightenment
Tales from the Map Room: A Tissue of Lies (videotape).
Our Forgotten History (videotape).
The Shape of the World: Empire! (videotape).
Landscape Maps and the Historian (videotape).

19-- The Mapping of the Americas

26-- The Mapping of the Greater Southwest and Texas
Katherine R. Goodwin, Curator of Maps at UTA.

November 2--Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Cartography.

November 9-- The Map Trade--Map Collecting and Collections.

16--Cartography of the Future
Professor John McElroy, Dean of Engineering at UTA

23--Research

30--Mapping the Fantastic Summary

December 7--Research Projects Due!

 

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