Easter egg in the sleeve of a book I called up yesterday
Flynn Allott
@flynnoallott.bsky.social
Departmental Lecturer @ Oriel Oxford. Asst. Ed. @ Imago Mundi. Ferimus ea quae sunt ferenda.
!!New issue of Imago Mundi!! Very many interesting pieces, including the following: José María García Redondo on the oldest known map printed in the Americas (1618) [open access] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Map of Mexico by Diego de Cisneros (1618): Territory, Astrology, and Social Conflict
The ‘Descripción de México’ by physician Diego de Cisneros is the oldest known map printed in the Americas. Engraved in New Spain on copper by Flemish artist Samuel Stradanus, it was included in Ci...
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A new piece out on the history of: questionnaires, fossils, university examination, in /Annals of Science/. Q long!
In my next I shall send you 3 or 4 obijts. I wish heartely my papers were in your hands, for Death seemes to threaten. God blesse you, & me, in this in & out world. Aubrey to Wood, 10 May 1690, Ballard 14, f. 142r.
Round 2 - very late on my own deadline, which doesn’t bode well
As concerning a cart with leggs […] I have in this enclosed paper indevoured to expresse (although but rudly) the proportion and figure of the leggs […] I will if you desire it make a little model of it and send whether you shall direct me. Potter to Aubrey, 22 Feb 1663, EL/P1/39, f. 64r.
Oxfam: 28 Pages of Elton on HVIII, nicely embossed copy of Rowse’s _England under Elizabeth_
Returning to UCL for a talk this term - would be nice to see London friends!
The final article of the issue presents Yannan Ding's discovery of a manuscript map of Cochinchina (in modern Vietnam), which drastically revises our understanding of when French missionary activity first began in the region. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Silhouette of Cochinchina:An Unreported Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Mapfrom the Archives nationales, France
The Archives nationales in Paris holds an anonymous, undated manuscript map, registered as Carte d'une partie de la côte de Cochinchine de Hué à Nha-Trang. Importantly, it is the only known contemp...
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The second article is Luis A. Robles Macías's survey of the use of flags on nautical maps and portolan charts of the early modern Maghreb, showing how flags can be used to date, attribute, and assess the provenance of charts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Flags over the Maghreb: Chronological Clues and Political Symbolism in Portolan Charts
Portolan charts of the Mediterranean never depicted political boundaries as lines, but they sometimes used flags to indicate the possession of selected cities. Historians have observed that these e...
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The issue opens with Hayley Cotter's discussion of John Selden's cartographic contributions to the 'mare clausum' debate of the seventeenth century, and the role of metaphor in his thought on legal mapping. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Metaphors, Metonymies, and Maps: The Case of John Selden’s Mare clausum (1635)
This essay considers the maps in seventeenth-century English and Dutch editions of John Selden’s legal treatise Mare clausum (1635). It establishes the visuality of legal arguments within the conte...
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Issue 77.2 of Imago Mundi is out! It contains articles on Early Modern Legal Cartography; Portolan Charts of the Maghreb; French Missionary Cartography in Vietnam; a Forum on the map history's future; and a reflection on the ending of Imago Mundi's Chronicle. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rimu20/7...
Imago Mundi
Volume 77, Issue 2 of Imago Mundi
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My students made me this card and so it’s only fair to remain in the profession for at least another year
Samuel Daniel wrote poetry like he was picking a lock
Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely
Maybe if we /continue/ to plunge the dagger into our own viscera, perhaps with more vigour, it’ll all be ok
Call for applications - The J.B. Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography Awards range up to £2000. The closing date for applications is 1st NOVEMBER. Apply here: www.maphistory.info/harley.html Please forward to others who might be interested.
Learning Greek optatives at the minute and it's mainly consisting of me grinningly mouthing oyoyoyoyoyoyoyoy or eyeyeyeyeyeyey
Eclectic spines from today’s accidentally-two-days-early trip to the book sale at St Mary Magdalene, Oxford
I have norovirus in Florence; I am consoled for not seeing any of it by sipping water from a The Simpsons Movie Spanish promotional cup
