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Tag Archives: Hachuring
Horizontal and Vertical Mountains
The research is taking me all over the place, quite literally: Thursday week presenting a talk for the International Conference on the History of Cartography in Amsterdam, then Tokyo the following day for the International Cartographic Conference (see Events for … Continue reading
Body Doubles
“A map is a representation on paper – a picture – you understand? – a picture – showing, representing this country – yes?” Books have been written on what maps are and are not; I know, I am presently wading through … Continue reading
Maps & Words, Lost & Found
Is there a correlation? A month before the exhibition opening my mum finally lost the map of her house, even when stood in the kitchen surrounded by ‘white goods’ there is nothing there she recognises. I say “by the sink … Continue reading
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Tagged Alzheimer's Disease, Contour Lines, Drawing, Goring, Hachuring, History of Cartography, Maps, Ordnance Survey, VARC
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Shape of a Mountain
A photo of Schiehallion is an impressive thing, with great hunk with spine aloft, the mountain rises magnificently out of its surroundings. But before photography – and prior to contours – depicting a mountain and suggesting its elevation had quite … Continue reading
Chas. Hutton – The Man
Charles Hutton was born in Newcastle in 1737; I wonder what he himself would have cited as his greatest achievement? He had much to be proud of: good at maths, his first teaching post was in Jesmond, for how many … Continue reading
Floods
Early morning radio: a man is watching water climbing the stairs. It’s not the first time he’s been flooded out and it will happen again as arguments for dredging and speeding flow versus slowing the onrush – via water meadow … Continue reading
The Other Italian & the First Printed Isobath Map
Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli is a name that kept cropping up reading around cartography. I kept sidelining him as biographers seemed to place his interests mostly elsewhere. Born in 1658 to a wealthy and noble family, he studied – among other … Continue reading
