Mastodawn

My new book arrived !!! #maps #maphistory #cartography — yay!!! 140 pages of scholarly goodness(?) on the history of the study of early maps by comparative map historians! New ideas re cartobibliography etc!!

Matthew Edney 1d ago

Hell's Kitchen Bitches! 🦮🔥3d ago

Yay my atlas arrived! This is really cool because I've never actually seen a map of Canada before! All the braille maps here are of the United States because that's where we are so that's where most of the companies focus there manufacturing of maps. It was really cool to actually see a map of Canada and plot out all the different cities where my friends live and the places that I've been! My Atlas has resource maps, elevation maps, climate maps it is really cool! Edited to add a picture

Matthew Edney 1d ago

xkcdbot 1d ago

title text: During the most recent glacial maximum, it's believed that land bridges extended from the surfaces and connected several of the spheres together.

(https://xkcd.com/3122)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3122)

Matthew Edney 2d ago

My lovely is not on Mastodon, but I must nonetheless record the wonderful achievement of having reached our 25th anniversary! Here's a silver map to celebrate -- one of the silver medals coined in 1589 to mark Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation in 1577–80. #maps #cartography #maphistory

Matthew Edney 3d ago

British History Online 3d ago

New release from British History Online:

A high resolution tif of the Agas Woodcut Map of London, circa 1562.

Licensed as Creative Commons Zero and available to download from our Github Repository:

https://github.com/ihr-digital/Agas-map

#History #DigitalHistory #London #Map

GitHub - ihr-digital/Agas-map: Agas Map of London, circa 1562

Agas Map of London, circa 1562. Contribute to ihr-digital/Agas-map development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Matthew Edney 4d ago

The Map Room 4d ago

New post: Re-Purposing Maps: The Art of Mark M. Garrett https://www.maproomblog.com/2025/07/re-purposing-maps-the-art-of-mark-m-garrett/

Re-Purposing Maps: The Art of Mark M. Garrett – The Map Room

Matthew Edney Jul 23

Fun little #map detail by Janina Lamb in her pictorial poster map of Lake Sunape region from 1970s!! #cartography

Matthew Edney Jul 21

Yoïn van Spijk Jul 20

The word 'ye' in names such as Ye Olde Inn ('the old inn') was originally simply pronounced 'the'.

The pronunciation with y is due to a misinterpretation of the first letter.

'Ye' originated as a second-best way of writing 'þe'. The first letter, þ, was called thorn. It was a letter for the th sound that originated in Old English.

Where did þ come from? How did it disappear? And why was it substituted by y in the word 'ye'?

Click my new infographic to read all about it:

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Matthew Edney Jul 21

Source:

Otto Neurath, *Bildstatistik nach Wiener Methode in der Schule* (Vienna, Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1933), 31.

Matthew Edney Jul 21

I have long been amused by the use of #globes as props for "the precociously smart child" in TV and film. I am now validated by no less a figure than Otto Neurath (1933):

"The globe is also increasingly becoming a decorative item and is used, for example, by theater and film directors to mark the room of a scholar, although hardly anyone today believes that he or she is actually studying on the globe."

#maps #cartography #maphistory