Maps Inchoate

[nemfrog]

Frontispiece. Remarks concerning stones said to have fallen from the clouds, both in these days and in antient times. 1796.

[uimapcoll]

September 30, 1935: The Hoover Dam was dedicated.

This map is impressive in photos, but the colors really pop in person!

Map: Eddy, Gerald A. Panoramic perspective of the area adjacent to Hoover Dam as it will appear when dam is completed.  Chicago, Ill.: Union Pacific System, c1931.

[nemfrog]

[mapsinchoate]

Fig. 16. From a drawing of a hill with contour lines added to a contour map. Popular map reading, 1928 (via nemfrog)

[time-for-maps]

[mapsinchoate]

Mattaeus Seutter, Vienna Metropolis, c. 1730 +

[theparisreview]

Mapping Central Park

Desire Lines turns a walk in the park into an emotional map.Desire Lines, 2015. A project of the Public Art Fund. © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Emma Cole, courtesy Gagosian GalleryIn 1654, Madeleine de Scudéry produced a ten-volume philosophical novel called Clélie, about the coaction between temperament and free will. Clélie was a popular salon novel... Read More »

[mapsinchoate]

Desire Lines turns a walk in the park into an exercise in memory, a way to traverse sentiment. It encourages us, just as de Scudéry did in 1654, to make emotion into a physical journey, to see the way a space becomes ours—our own Cartes de tendre. (via theparisreview)

[nemfrog]

[mapsinchoate]

Prevailing winds. The chemistry of creation : being a sketch of the chemical phenomena of the earth, the air, the ocean. 1850. (via nemfrog)

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[mapsinchoate]

Here are maps of Mars and Venus from Aleriel or A Voyage to Other Worlds by Wladyslaw Somerville Lach-Szyrma, 1883. (via danskjavlarna)

[nemfrog]

[mapsinchoate]

Fig. 3. Simpson’s Alphabet Analogy - illustrating the creative force of natural selection. From fish to philosopher. 1959. (via nemfrog)

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[mapsinchoate]

Paris from the air, 1734, Bretez/Turgot (via lessadjectivesmoreverbs)

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[mapsinchoate]

Zoomorphic illustration from the 12th-century manuscript Boethius, De musica, f.43v. De musica contains many beautifully-drawn diagrams, most illustrating the various musical intervals and their mathematical ratios. Some are further enhanced with animal forms (as here), musical instruments or human figures.  (via turnbullrarebooks)

[nemfrog]

[mapsinchoate]

Mean annual temperatures, Yaggy’s graphic record, 1887 (via nemfrog)

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[mapsinchoate]

Asia, the Greatest and Highest of all the Continents, 1920 (via intheheatherbright)

[time-for-maps]

[mapsinchoate]

Birds-Eye View from Summit of Mt. Washington; White Mountains, New-Hampshire, 1902 +

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[mapsinchoate]

Olaf Martens, from Patina (via mpdrolet)

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[mapsinchoate]

Map of the world printed in 1483 in Brescia, Italy. Roman Ambrosius Macrobius, who lived circa 395 to 436, wrote a commentary on Cicero that included a fictional account, “The Dream of Scipio,” in which the he could see the Moon, Sun and planets orbiting Earth. Through the dream, Cicero postulated the existence of a vast southern continent. Macrobius’s commentary was republished in 1483 with maps drawn from the manuscript. (via articulum)

[nemfrog]

[mapsinchoate]

Map of Manhattan shows the view from the top of the Empire State Building, with a key identifying notable buildings and other features. Empire state building observatory. 1950. (via nemfrog)