MAPS of the RENAISSANCE

• After 1,000 years, Ptolemy is

rediscovered in Europe
– Revisions accompanied translations
MAPS of the RENAISSANCE
• Roselli’s World Map (1508)
– The first “whole world” map
– Mythical southern continent (disc. 1820)
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• Apian’s World Map (1530)
– “Heart-shaped world”
resulted by expanding
Ptolemy’s projection
to the entire world
– Quite popular during
the renaissance
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• Waldseemüller’s World Map (1507)
– First to name “America” (Vespucci? Ameryk?)
– Name was later removed…

Purchased by U.S.
Library of
Congress in 2003
for $10 million—the
highest price the
library had ever
paid for a map
MAPS of the RENAISSANCE
• Ortelius’ World Map (1570)
– From the first modern atlas: Theatrum
Orbis Terrarum (Theater of the World)
 MAPS of the
17th-19th CENTURIES
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• Janssonius’ Danish Map (1629)

– High level of accuracy and detail
– He published the 11 volume Atlas Major,
containing the work of a hundred people
MAPS of the 17 -19 Centuries
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• Hondius’ World Map (1630)

– The quintessential renaissance map
– He improved and reissued Mercator’s atlas
MAPS of the 17 -19 Centuries
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• van Kuelen’s World Map (1720)

– Based on Mercator’s projection
– Portolan lines are finally correct (rhumb)
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• California as an island (1650)

– Idea came from a 1510 romance novel
– Reinforced by Ascension’s 1602 voyage
– Outlawed by Ferdinand VII in 18th century
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• Great Trigonometrical Survey (1837)

– Funded by the East India Company
– Built from a
single baseline
– George Everest
completed the
central spine
 EARLY
THEMATIC MAPS
 EARLY THEMATIC MAPS
• Thematic mapping is only about 300
years old
– Developed primarily in Europe
• Used in conjunction with new statistical
tools to describe
– The physical world (trade winds, magnetic
declination, topography, etc.)
– The social world (population, disease,
ethnicities, etc.)
 EARLY THEMATIC MAPS
• Halley’s Wind Map (1686)
– The first weather map illustrates prevailing
winds
 EARLY THEMATIC MAPS
• Halley’s Declination Map (1701)
– Isogons identify variations in magnetism
 EARLY THEMATIC MAPS
• Smith’s Geological Map (1815)
– First geological map of
Britain, and the basis
for all subsequent
geological maps
– William “Strata” Smith
developed the
“principle of faunal
succession”
 EARLY THEMATIC MAPS
• Harness’ Transportation Map (1837)
– The first flow map
illustrates
transportation
magnitudes via
proportionally
scaled lines
 EARLY THEMATIC MAPS
• Montizon’s Population Map (1830)
– The first population dot density map
 EARLY THEMATIC MAPS
• Snow’s Cholera Map (1855)
– The first
epidemiological
map (dot density)
illustrates cholera
cases in relation to
water pumps
 EARLY THEMATIC MAPS
• d’Angeville’s Population Map (1836)
– An early choropleth
– Tone-value
relationship is
reversed
 EARLY THEMATIC MAPS
• Petermann’s Cholera Map (1848)
– An early density surface illustrating
concentrations of cholera cases
 EARLY THEMATIC MAPS
• Pritchard’s Ethnographic Map (1843)
– A qualitative map
illustrating the
spatial distribution
of ethnic groups
– A chorochromatic
map
(“place-color”)
 EARLY THEMATIC MAPS
• Berghaus’ “Ideal” Geologic Cross-
Section (1838)
– From one of the most extensive and
detailed early thematic atlases
 EARLY THEMATIC MAPS
• Minard’s Emigration Flow Map (1862)
– Four attributes: magnitude, location,
direction, and nationalities/racial groups
 EARLY THEMATIC MAPS
• Duchatelet’s Prostitute Map (1836)
– A choropleth map illustrating
concentrations of prostitutes in Paris
 HISTORY of
CARTOGRAPHY

Cartographic Design for GIS

AB Motau