- July 30, 2021
- Richard Pegg
Zhuang Tingfu: Cartographic Encounters and Echoes
In the late eighteenth century, an encounter between European and Chinese cartography left clues about the diffusion of geographic knowledge
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In the late eighteenth century, an encounter between European and Chinese cartography left clues about the diffusion of geographic knowledge
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For international “Talk like a Pirate Day,” we use maps in our collection to examine the story of Captain Southack and his mandate to recover the wreck of the pirate ship Whydah off the coast of Cape Cod in 1717.
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How to make a relief map in the era before 3D printing
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One map from a midcentury series tells a story about Cold War propaganda
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Is it possible to draw out into the open the vast and very global relationships which have built the world around us?
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The Southwest Expressway and Inner Belt Highway projects were both proposed in the Master Highway Plan for the Boston Metropolitan Area in 1948. Designed to cut through densely-populated areas inside and outside of Boston, both projects were eventually halted and abandoned in the early 1970s.
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A close look at one of our newly accessible maps on Boston development history
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Silly games can open new windows into map collections
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Explore some new and old radio maps in our collection, and learn a bit about the history of radio communications.
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