The routes of Captain James Cook's voyages. The first voyage is shown in red, second voyage in green, and third voyage in blue. The route of Cook's crew following his death is shown as a dashed blue line…
Printed in China in 1602 at request of the emperor by the Italian Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, the mandarin Zhong Wentao, and the technical translator Li Zhizao, is the earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps.
Printed in China in 1602 at request of the emperor by the Italian Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, the mandarin Zhong Wentao, and the technical translator Li Zhizao, is the earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps.
Severan Map of Rome circa 200 AD. Originally displayed in the Temple of Peace in Rome on Viminal Hill. 60:43 feet and 1:240 scale.
The creation of monuments for the past emperors of Rome was a key part of cementing the authority of the current dynasties. By creating a chronological story of inheritance through the monuments, emperors showed their ties to the now divus emperors of the past. This Severan map emphasizes the built form and the glory associated with the city's monuments, thereby affirming the power of the built form and the glory associated with the city's monuments, affirming the regime's power of the regime.
Here is a possibility of what the Forma Urbis would have looked like in the Temple of Peace during the Severan dynasty when it was first built.
The Cantino Planisphere was produced by the Portuguese in 1502 and acquired by an Italian spy that same year. The map shows Portuguese geographical discoveries and is the earliest surviving example of a map with a latitude chart.
Digital Humanities - Digitally Created Graphic Scores - Brandon Joung [REFER TO MY OTHER IMAGE]
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Digital Humanities - Digitally Created Graphic Scores - Brandon Joung [REFER TO MY OTHER IMAGE]
Graphic notation in music is a very interesting field. While music is spatial in nature, it is spatially aurally and not visually like a geographical map would be. However, with the advent of graphic scores, visual space can become a more effective proxy for representing our ear's spatial and temporal perception of frequencies and amplitudes.
An AI-generated graphic score in the style of the modernist composer Iannis Xenakis.
Digital Humanities - Score for Mikrophonie I - Karlheinz Stockhausen - (Brandon Joung)
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Digital Humanities - Score for Mikrophonie I - Karlheinz Stockhausen - (Brandon Joung)
Graphic notation in music is a very interesting field. While music is spatial in nature, it is spatially aurally and not visually like a map would be. However, with the advent of graphic scores, visual space can become a more effective proxy for representing our ear's spatial and temporal perception of frequencies and amplitudes.
This image is page 2 from the score for modern classical composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mikrophonie I, for tam-tam, 2 microphones, and 2 filters each with potentiometers. Notice how different categories of sounds are spatially arranged into distinct columns.
Above is a legend of the piece's "connection scheme" --- the manner in which a "structure" (sound event) should function in relation to another simultaneously occurring structure. This piece has three structures.
Digital Humanities - Historical Aerials - Connor Connolly
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Digital Humanities - Historical Aerials - Connor Connolly
Here is a screenshot from the site https://www.historicaerials.com/. My research onto digital humanities revealed no concrete definition of the subject, only that it combines the study of the humanities with new digital technology. To this end, Historic Aerials is a great site because it provides an OSM of the US with historic aerials (hence the name) overlayed in a selection of years in the sidebar. This way one can actively watch the development of even remote and fairly undocumented regions and is a fantastic tool for using images that are not in and of themselves maps to create highly useful hybrid maps.
Digital Humanities - Medieval Warfare on the Grid - Andrew Gu
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Digital Humanities - Medieval Warfare on the Grid - Andrew Gu
Image source: HALDON, JOHN, Vince Gaffney, Georgios Theodoropoulos, and Phil Murgatroyd. “Marching across Anatolia: Medieval Logistics and Modeling the Mantzikert Campaign.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 65/66 (2011): 233. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41933710.
This is an early-stage screenshot from Medieval Warfare on the Grid, an enormous simulation spearheaded by Philip Murgatroyd of the Byzantine army's march from the capital to its fateful clash at Manzikert in 1071. Murgatroyd and his collaborators created (with plenty of estimates and some speculation) an extraordinarily set of simulations modeling the decision-making and pathfinding of every single soldier, officer, noncombatant, and animal in the Byzantine army on the march to Manzikert, from digging camp trenches to consuming food to navigating Byzantine Anatolia's major military roadways, as well as the effects those choices had on the towns and landscapes the army passed through. Though the simulation isn't exact, it provides a never-before-seen level of detail on the conditions and constraints of a pre-modern army on the march and definitely rules out many scholars' and commentators' estimates of plausible army sizes.
Sources:
Haldon, John, Vince Gaffney, Georgios Theodoropoulos, and Phil Murgatroyd. “Marching across Anatolia: Medieval Logistics and Modeling the Mantzikert Campaign.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 65/66 (2011): 209–35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41933710.
Gaffney, Vince, Phil Murgatroyd, Bart Craenen, and Georgios Theodoropoulos. “‘Only Individuals’: Moving the Byzantine Army to Manzikert.” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement, no. 122 (2013): 25–43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44216321.
Digital Humanities - "Hate Crime Laws By State" - Oscar Nobel
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Digital Humanities - "Hate Crime Laws By State" - Oscar Nobel
Map provided by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
"The Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) of 1990, as amended, requires the Justice Department each year to collect and report data on hate crimes – crimes that are motivated in whole or in part by bias based on race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, gender or gender identity. While the HCSA report provides the single best national snapshot of bias-motivated criminal activity in the U.S., still today, dozens of large cities either do not report hate crime data at all — or underreport the data to the FBI. ADL works in partnership with others across the country to improve hate crime prevention, response and reporting."
"The “Barbenheimer” map shows whether “Barbie” or “Oppenheimer” is trending more in states of the U.S. Interestingly, “Barbie” had a greater viewership in the Southern states, while “Oppenheimer” had more success on the coasts."
Digital Humanities - Shakespeare Facial Recognition - Nikhil DeNatale
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Digital Humanities - Shakespeare Facial Recognition - Nikhil DeNatale
This portrait, made by an unknown artist in 1588, is considered a photo of a person who looks similar to Shakespeare, although there is no proof that it is actually intended to be of Shakespeare. Ray Evans, a Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Manchester, attempted to use facial recognition on the photos to show the similarities between the two faces. Although it cannot prove that the painting is definitely William Shakespeare, it does show the similarities between the two people.
Digital Humanities - The Spread of Islam in Ancient Africa - Fletcher Hoven
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Digital Humanities - The Spread of Islam in Ancient Africa - Fletcher Hoven
This map provides a simple showing of how Islam spread in ancient Africa. This map explains how Islam mainly spread through merchants, traders, scholars, and missionaries. The emersion of Islam was also dependent of conquest and rulers of the time
Digital Humanities - Map for Katherine Dunham’s Repertory- Fletcher Hoven
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Digital Humanities - Map for Katherine Dunham’s Repertory- Fletcher Hoven
This map shows the places in which served as inspiration for her choreography. Katherine Mary Dunham was an American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist in the 20th century. Dunham
Digital Humanities - Inventing Abstraction - MoMA 2012-2013 - Joe Miotto
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Digital Humanities - Inventing Abstraction - MoMA 2012-2013 - Joe Miotto
I recommend accessing the link to interact with this map/concept chart. The link also has how they charted these connections and more information than just the lines connecting the thinkers and artists.
Main issue is the color gradient. What do the white areas represent? How do we know which colors are intersecting? (They're definitely not continuous, as seen by St. Louis.)
Bad Design - Ecological Footprint Map - Nikhil DeNatale
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Bad Design - Ecological Footprint Map - Nikhil DeNatale
This map shows each countries ecological footprint for capita, or how much each person impacts the natural environment. The data is interesting, but the distortions on the map make it difficult to read. Although it is clear with outside context which countries have the largest impacts, the shapes are quite distorted so it is difficult to recognize the countries based off of the shape. Also, countries with smaller ecological impacts barely show up on the map, making it hard to tell how much they affect the environment in comparison to other low polluters, and we can only tell that they are less than the largest polluters.
This map is a re-drawing of the original Happy Planet Index map. While this new map offers a unique visualization of very important data, I believe it is poorly designed because it's not intuitive to the viewer. Some regions are so distorted that one cannot even identify them. The map index, which explains how to read this map, is placed in the bottom left corner, and is shrunk down so small that it is unreadable. Maps are supposed to be a way of processing large amounts of data in a shorter amount of time, but this map does not accomplish that; it forces the viewer to do extra, unnecessary work in order to understand what information the map is relaying.
"This map pushes back against interpretation. It keeps trying to tell you it’s not a map, but instead just some colored pixels that form interesting shapes."
This map displays the borders of the so-called Kingdom of Soissons, a Roman rump state in northern France following the collapse of central government rule in the area. The only documentary evidence of a Roman state in Soissons comes from literally two lines in Gregory of Tours. Gregory does not comment at all on the state's borders, only on its capital city. As such, its borders are almost entirely speculative.
This map is from NYT, showing the speculative path of Malaysian Air Flight 370 after its disappearance in March of 2014 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur INTL to Beijing Capitol INTL.
Speculation -- "Population Year 2100" -- Oscar Nobel
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Speculation -- "Population Year 2100" -- Oscar Nobel
"In 2100 the world population is estimated to have reached 11.2 billion.
By the end of the century, the African continent’s share of the global population will have risen to 49 per cent by the end of the century, increased from 16 per cent in 2018. At the same time, the global population is expected to have almost flatlined by then, meaning that the year 2100 could be the year of peak population after which the world’s population is expected to decline."
Speculation - Biodiversity Loss Around the World - Nikhil DeNatale
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Speculation - Biodiversity Loss Around the World - Nikhil DeNatale
The amount of biodiversity loss in different areas around the world. Instead of measuring the amount of species that were originally found in an area and seeing how many of them are still found, this map got its data from measuring habitat loss, and used observed patterns of how habitat loss affected biodiversity to predict each region. The former way of collecting data would be impossible based on the amount of species worldwide, and also because we do not have precise amounts of species for many parts of the world. However, since there is not a precise count of biodiversity, the way of collecting data for this map involves some speculation.
"Blue areas denote a high confidence of inundation, orange areas denote a high degree of uncertainty, and unshaded areas denote a high confidence that these areas will be dry given the chosen water level."
The graphic is currently set to project what these researchers believe the map will look like given two feet of sea level rise (for reference, our oceans currently rise at a rate of approximately 0.13 inches per year). The researchers are accounting for their speculation by representing their level of certainty with different colors on the map.
Speculation - U.S population estimate by 2050 - Fletcher Hoven
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Speculation - U.S population estimate by 2050 - Fletcher Hoven
This map shows the estimated population of the United States in 2050. This map seems to have no legitimate source, and colors represent nothing in particular.
While this map may be accurate, there is no data referenced or maker. Even with a reverse google search the maker cannot be found.
Speculation - Volcanic ash fall forecast of Sakurajima volcano - Reona Kubomiya
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Speculation - Volcanic ash fall forecast of Sakurajima volcano - Reona Kubomiya
This is volcanic ash fall forecasts of Sakurajima by Japan Meteorological Agency. The volcano Sakurajima erupts frequently (more than once a week on average) and rains ash, but of course no one knows when it occurs; this map makes many uncertain assumptions such as the time and magnitude of eruptions. This seems an intermediate characteristic between a weather forecast and a hazard map.
Part of a series in which a speculative cartographer used mid 20th-century gas station road maps (from David Rumsey's collection) and added 66 meters of sea level rise, the highest predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
"By re-branding, re-tilting, and editing the maps, [...] these maps take on the promotions of petro-corporations, and turn them back on themselves, depicting the ultimate consequences of car culture and the burning of fossil fuels. They are counter-cartographies, showing us the future superimposed on the past, the consequences laid on top of the propaganda."
The routes of Captain James Cook's voyages. The first voyage is shown in red, second voyage in green, and third voyage in blue. The route of Cook's crew following his death is shown as a dashed blue line…
Printed in China in 1602 at request of the emperor by the Italian Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, the mandarin Zhong Wentao, and the technical translator Li Zhizao, is the earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps.
Printed in China in 1602 at request of the emperor by the Italian Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, the mandarin Zhong Wentao, and the technical translator Li Zhizao, is the earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps.
Severan Map of Rome circa 200 AD. Originally displayed in the Temple of Peace in Rome on Viminal Hill. 60:43 feet and 1:240 scale.
The creation of monuments for the past emperors of Rome was a key part of cementing the authority of the current dynasties. By creating a chronological story of inheritance through the monuments, emperors showed their ties to the now divus emperors of the past. This Severan map emphasizes the built form and the glory associated with the city's monuments, thereby affirming the power of the built form and the glory associated with the city's monuments, affirming the regime's power of the regime.
Here is a possibility of what the Forma Urbis would have looked like in the Temple of Peace during the Severan dynasty when it was first built.
The Cantino Planisphere was produced by the Portuguese in 1502 and acquired by an Italian spy that same year. The map shows Portuguese geographical discoveries and is the earliest surviving example of a map with a latitude chart.
Digital Humanities - Digitally Created Graphic Scores - Brandon Joung [REFER TO MY OTHER IMAGE]
Graphic notation in music is a very interesting field. While music is spatial in nature, it is spatially aurally and not visually like a geographical map would be. However, with the advent of graphic scores, visual space can become a more effective proxy for representing our ear's spatial and temporal perception of frequencies and amplitudes.
An AI-generated graphic score in the style of the modernist composer Iannis Xenakis.
Digital Humanities - Score for Mikrophonie I - Karlheinz Stockhausen - (Brandon Joung)
Graphic notation in music is a very interesting field. While music is spatial in nature, it is spatially aurally and not visually like a map would be. However, with the advent of graphic scores, visual space can become a more effective proxy for representing our ear's spatial and temporal perception of frequencies and amplitudes.
This image is page 2 from the score for modern classical composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mikrophonie I, for tam-tam, 2 microphones, and 2 filters each with potentiometers. Notice how different categories of sounds are spatially arranged into distinct columns.
Above is a legend of the piece's "connection scheme" --- the manner in which a "structure" (sound event) should function in relation to another simultaneously occurring structure. This piece has three structures.
Digital Humanities - Historical Aerials - Connor Connolly
Here is a screenshot from the site https://www.historicaerials.com/. My research onto digital humanities revealed no concrete definition of the subject, only that it combines the study of the humanities with new digital technology. To this end, Historic Aerials is a great site because it provides an OSM of the US with historic aerials (hence the name) overlayed in a selection of years in the sidebar. This way one can actively watch the development of even remote and fairly undocumented regions and is a fantastic tool for using images that are not in and of themselves maps to create highly useful hybrid maps.
Digital Humanities - Medieval Warfare on the Grid - Andrew Gu
Image source: HALDON, JOHN, Vince Gaffney, Georgios Theodoropoulos, and Phil Murgatroyd. “Marching across Anatolia: Medieval Logistics and Modeling the Mantzikert Campaign.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 65/66 (2011): 233. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41933710.
This is an early-stage screenshot from Medieval Warfare on the Grid, an enormous simulation spearheaded by Philip Murgatroyd of the Byzantine army's march from the capital to its fateful clash at Manzikert in 1071. Murgatroyd and his collaborators created (with plenty of estimates and some speculation) an extraordinarily set of simulations modeling the decision-making and pathfinding of every single soldier, officer, noncombatant, and animal in the Byzantine army on the march to Manzikert, from digging camp trenches to consuming food to navigating Byzantine Anatolia's major military roadways, as well as the effects those choices had on the towns and landscapes the army passed through. Though the simulation isn't exact, it provides a never-before-seen level of detail on the conditions and constraints of a pre-modern army on the march and definitely rules out many scholars' and commentators' estimates of plausible army sizes.
Sources:
Haldon, John, Vince Gaffney, Georgios Theodoropoulos, and Phil Murgatroyd. “Marching across Anatolia: Medieval Logistics and Modeling the Mantzikert Campaign.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 65/66 (2011): 209–35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41933710.
Gaffney, Vince, Phil Murgatroyd, Bart Craenen, and Georgios Theodoropoulos. “‘Only Individuals’: Moving the Byzantine Army to Manzikert.” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement, no. 122 (2013): 25–43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44216321.
Digital Humanities - "Hate Crime Laws By State" - Oscar Nobel
Map provided by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
"The Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) of 1990, as amended, requires the Justice Department each year to collect and report data on hate crimes – crimes that are motivated in whole or in part by bias based on race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, gender or gender identity. While the HCSA report provides the single best national snapshot of bias-motivated criminal activity in the U.S., still today, dozens of large cities either do not report hate crime data at all — or underreport the data to the FBI. ADL works in partnership with others across the country to improve hate crime prevention, response and reporting."
"The “Barbenheimer” map shows whether “Barbie” or “Oppenheimer” is trending more in states of the U.S. Interestingly, “Barbie” had a greater viewership in the Southern states, while “Oppenheimer” had more success on the coasts."
Digital Humanities - Shakespeare Facial Recognition - Nikhil DeNatale
This portrait, made by an unknown artist in 1588, is considered a photo of a person who looks similar to Shakespeare, although there is no proof that it is actually intended to be of Shakespeare. Ray Evans, a Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Manchester, attempted to use facial recognition on the photos to show the similarities between the two faces. Although it cannot prove that the painting is definitely William Shakespeare, it does show the similarities between the two people.
Digital Humanities - The Spread of Islam in Ancient Africa - Fletcher Hoven
This map provides a simple showing of how Islam spread in ancient Africa. This map explains how Islam mainly spread through merchants, traders, scholars, and missionaries. The emersion of Islam was also dependent of conquest and rulers of the time
Digital Humanities - Map for Katherine Dunham’s Repertory- Fletcher Hoven
This map shows the places in which served as inspiration for her choreography. Katherine Mary Dunham was an American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist in the 20th century. Dunham
Digital Humanities - Inventing Abstraction - MoMA 2012-2013 - Joe Miotto
I recommend accessing the link to interact with this map/concept chart. The link also has how they charted these connections and more information than just the lines connecting the thinkers and artists.
Main issue is the color gradient. What do the white areas represent? How do we know which colors are intersecting? (They're definitely not continuous, as seen by St. Louis.)
Bad Design - Ecological Footprint Map - Nikhil DeNatale
This map shows each countries ecological footprint for capita, or how much each person impacts the natural environment. The data is interesting, but the distortions on the map make it difficult to read. Although it is clear with outside context which countries have the largest impacts, the shapes are quite distorted so it is difficult to recognize the countries based off of the shape. Also, countries with smaller ecological impacts barely show up on the map, making it hard to tell how much they affect the environment in comparison to other low polluters, and we can only tell that they are less than the largest polluters.
This map is a re-drawing of the original Happy Planet Index map. While this new map offers a unique visualization of very important data, I believe it is poorly designed because it's not intuitive to the viewer. Some regions are so distorted that one cannot even identify them. The map index, which explains how to read this map, is placed in the bottom left corner, and is shrunk down so small that it is unreadable. Maps are supposed to be a way of processing large amounts of data in a shorter amount of time, but this map does not accomplish that; it forces the viewer to do extra, unnecessary work in order to understand what information the map is relaying.
"This map pushes back against interpretation. It keeps trying to tell you it’s not a map, but instead just some colored pixels that form interesting shapes."
This map displays the borders of the so-called Kingdom of Soissons, a Roman rump state in northern France following the collapse of central government rule in the area. The only documentary evidence of a Roman state in Soissons comes from literally two lines in Gregory of Tours. Gregory does not comment at all on the state's borders, only on its capital city. As such, its borders are almost entirely speculative.
This map is from NYT, showing the speculative path of Malaysian Air Flight 370 after its disappearance in March of 2014 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur INTL to Beijing Capitol INTL.
Speculation -- "Population Year 2100" -- Oscar Nobel
"In 2100 the world population is estimated to have reached 11.2 billion.
By the end of the century, the African continent’s share of the global population will have risen to 49 per cent by the end of the century, increased from 16 per cent in 2018. At the same time, the global population is expected to have almost flatlined by then, meaning that the year 2100 could be the year of peak population after which the world’s population is expected to decline."
Speculation - Biodiversity Loss Around the World - Nikhil DeNatale
The amount of biodiversity loss in different areas around the world. Instead of measuring the amount of species that were originally found in an area and seeing how many of them are still found, this map got its data from measuring habitat loss, and used observed patterns of how habitat loss affected biodiversity to predict each region. The former way of collecting data would be impossible based on the amount of species worldwide, and also because we do not have precise amounts of species for many parts of the world. However, since there is not a precise count of biodiversity, the way of collecting data for this map involves some speculation.
"Blue areas denote a high confidence of inundation, orange areas denote a high degree of uncertainty, and unshaded areas denote a high confidence that these areas will be dry given the chosen water level."
The graphic is currently set to project what these researchers believe the map will look like given two feet of sea level rise (for reference, our oceans currently rise at a rate of approximately 0.13 inches per year). The researchers are accounting for their speculation by representing their level of certainty with different colors on the map.
Speculation - U.S population estimate by 2050 - Fletcher Hoven
This map shows the estimated population of the United States in 2050. This map seems to have no legitimate source, and colors represent nothing in particular.
While this map may be accurate, there is no data referenced or maker. Even with a reverse google search the maker cannot be found.
Speculation - Volcanic ash fall forecast of Sakurajima volcano - Reona Kubomiya
This is volcanic ash fall forecasts of Sakurajima by Japan Meteorological Agency. The volcano Sakurajima erupts frequently (more than once a week on average) and rains ash, but of course no one knows when it occurs; this map makes many uncertain assumptions such as the time and magnitude of eruptions. This seems an intermediate characteristic between a weather forecast and a hazard map.
Part of a series in which a speculative cartographer used mid 20th-century gas station road maps (from David Rumsey's collection) and added 66 meters of sea level rise, the highest predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
"By re-branding, re-tilting, and editing the maps, [...] these maps take on the promotions of petro-corporations, and turn them back on themselves, depicting the ultimate consequences of car culture and the burning of fossil fuels. They are counter-cartographies, showing us the future superimposed on the past, the consequences laid on top of the propaganda."
A map of Africa from Google Maps. The shape of Africa is quite different from the depiction on the map.
3
Nikhil
(@NikhilD)
Jan 05 2024
0.7
0.51
An image of the Mediterranean from Google Maps. The depiction is much more accurate than the depiction of Africa, likely due to Mauro being more familiar with the Mediterranean since he lived along its shore.
Dots count
1
1
John Steinmetz
(@JohnStein)
Jan 05 2024
0.42
0.49
Africa is said to have the world's highest mountain and longest river
Dots count
2
1
John Steinmetz
(@JohnStein)
Jan 05 2024
0.49
0.18
Canada is given its modern day name 加拿大
2
John Steinmetz
(@JohnStein)
Jan 05 2024
0.33
0.24
California does not show up as an island in this map, although it does on many subsequent maps from the same century.
Dots count
5
1
Julian Arenas
(@julianaren)
Jan 05 2024
0.26
0.39
The yellow dots represent the location of various Turkic tribes based on their linguistic dialects.
2
Julian Arenas
(@julianaren)
Jan 05 2024
0.66
0.45
The red lines that appear prominently in this map represent the boundaries of the Islamic world.
3
Julian Arenas
(@julianaren)
Jan 05 2024
0.43
0.53
The gray lines represent rivers.
4
Julian Arenas
(@julianaren)
Jan 05 2024
0.23
0.19
These longer green lines represent ocean. I was curious about these because they seem so different from the way oceans are represented in Western cartography.
5
Julian Arenas
(@julianaren)
Jan 05 2024
0.73
0.09
One of this map's most interesting feature is its border, which depicts the Bahr al-Muhit (Encircling Ocean). It was believed that all oceans were connected and enclosed by the Bahr al-Muhit.
Dots count
4
1
Connor Connolly
(@connor_connolly)
Jan 05 2024
0.09
0.44
Knightsbridge and Hyde Park, while seemingly unpopulated in the map, are very densely populated areas today.
2
Connor Connolly
(@connor_connolly)
Jan 05 2024
0.05
0.19
Fluvius, Latin for "river." Here the northern boundary of the county of Surrey losely follows the River Thames
3
Connor Connolly
(@connor_connolly)
Jan 05 2024
0.48
0.43
In an effort to keep the maps linear, the position of North on the maps are not constant, this there is a compass on each map to delineate where north is for each specific strip
4
Connor Connolly
(@connor_connolly)
Jan 05 2024
0.88
0.12
The wood bridge has not survived to the test of time, but two other bridges, one carrying the Salisbury Road and another carrying the A345, Pewsey Road
Dots count
2
1
Jeff Sousa
(@jeffsousa)
Jan 05 2024
0.47
0.33
Interestingly, this map shows the Tigris and Euphrates as two separate rivers, though we know today that the Tigris and Euphrates meet in the modern city of Qurna, Iraq.
2
Jeff Sousa
(@jeffsousa)
Jan 05 2024
0.5
0.07
This image has been flipped to represent the cardinal directions in their standard orientation.
Dots count
1
1
Sam Reynoso Williams
(@SamRW)
Jan 05 2024
0.42
0.4
This map depicts the "old world" and "new world". The new world is colored in green and dates up until the 1500's.
Dots count
5
1
Brandon Joung
(@bmj1)
Jan 05 2024
0.16
0.4
Arabia
2
Brandon Joung
(@bmj1)
Jan 05 2024
0.04
0.34
Europe
Thought this was the Indian subcontinent at first
3
Brandon Joung
(@bmj1)
Jan 05 2024
0.63
0.39
Huang He (Yellow River)
Drawn in yellow
4
Brandon Joung
(@bmj1)
Jan 05 2024
0.99
0.52
No Japan?
Noteworthy observation as China and Korea knew well of Japan's existence by this time period
5
Brandon Joung
(@bmj1)
Jan 05 2024
0.31
0.46
Southeast Asia? Indian Subcontinent? Taklamakan Desert?
Dots count
3
1
JoeMiotto
(@JoeMiotto)
Jan 05 2024
0.51
0.24
The plan not only showed the size of the buildings, but also examined the interior walls and foundations.
2
JoeMiotto
(@JoeMiotto)
Jan 05 2024
0.41
0.3
These small dots indicate columns.
3
JoeMiotto
(@JoeMiotto)
Jan 05 2024
0.64
0.42
As you can see here, the tablet is shattered. Archeological efforts have recovered about 10-15% of the original plan. Even this small percentage is shattered into 1000 pieces.
This fragment is from the Museo della Civiltà in Rome.
Dots count
3
1
Barrett Heritage
(@bth4)
Jan 05 2024
0.11
0.17
Caribbean islands. Significant as this map was surreptitiously acquired from the Portuguese by the Italians in 1502.
2
Barrett Heritage
(@bth4)
Jan 05 2024
0.21
0.28
The coast of South America is incomplete.
3
Barrett Heritage
(@bth4)
Jan 05 2024
0.5
0.23
Rhumb lines are included for navigational purposes.
Dots count
8
1
Andrew Gu
(@amg11)
Jan 05 2024
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Interestingly, the Egyptian trade hub of Cairo/Fustat (or Damietta; I'm not super sure) is significantly larger than Jerusalem. Medieval Egypt, particularly the Nile Delta, was a source of valuable textiles and a link between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, and this portelin chart, though made for a royal court rather than a merchant, might reflect that importance through the space it gives to Egypt rather than the Holy Land.
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(@amg11)
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This is the second portelin chart I've seen depicting the Red Sea as literally red, and there seems to also be a little channel in the sea (for Moses?). I'm curious as to when and why that convention first appeared.
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There's no single orientation that works for this map, though the names seem generally easier to read when looking with South on top. I'm also not sure how people would have displayed the map; the lack of one orientation probably rules out putting it on a wall, but it seems big enough that putting it on a table would also be unwieldy, especially given just how small the text is.
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Andrew Gu
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Martines has placed his name (and the date of production) on what was once the calf's neck, alongside (somewhat presumptuously) the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (I assume).
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Andrew Gu
(@amg11)
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Note the inclusion of western Iberia in this map of the Mediterranean; alongside the Black Sea, modern Spain and Portugal seem to have been crucial links in this trade.
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Andrew Gu
(@amg11)
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The coast tends to look like a series of jigsaw pieces--I wonder if the pieces are supposed to approximate the frequency of natural harbors.
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Andrew Gu
(@amg11)
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Unlike most other cities illustrated on this map, these three northern Italian cities (including Venice) are depicted with very prominent ports. Venice's famous tower (an imitation of the Pharos of Alexandria) might represent an important landmark on the map as the first thing new travelers would see as they approached Venice from the sea.
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(@amg11)
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The Pope's keys at Avignon--a political statement?
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Oscar Nobel
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Jan 05 2024
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Figure here can be seen holding an orb, possibly a reference to the t-circle map portraying Europa, Asia, and Africa within a circle, separated by t-shaped markings
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Oscar Nobel
(@oscar_nobel)
Jan 05 2024
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Elephant here in Egypt, for some reason the elephant is depicted with dots on its body from the neck up.
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Oscar Nobel
(@oscar_nobel)
Jan 05 2024
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Jerusalem, given special status with an actual drawing of a city accompanying it, not just a name. Not that it is described as being located within "Central Sciria" (Syria)
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Oscar Nobel
(@oscar_nobel)
Jan 05 2024
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Journeying around to Turkey, note now that there are no descriptions or notations indicating landmarks, manmade or natural, within the mainland. The only markings can be seen on the border with the sea. This holds true across the entire map, with the exception of Jerusalem
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Oscar Nobel
(@oscar_nobel)
Jan 05 2024
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Remarkable amount of detail in the islands off the coasts of Greece and Turkey. Note that in general, the places that have the most detail and accuracy are around the Mediterranean. Reasons for this include the general purpose of the map, that is to illustrate the coastline, but also because this was the most explored region in this part of the world due to ease of sea travel and trade between and among the various peoples in the region.
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Oscar Nobel
(@oscar_nobel)
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Rome also gets a drawing of a city and a name despite being inland, as does "Janna" above it
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Oscar Nobel
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Note how inaccurate the shapes of Ireland and Scotland are. This points to them not being as well explored and less important then they would become in later centuries with the rise of the British Empire
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Christian B Malone
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Bottom of Italy
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Christian B Malone
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Heel of Italy
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Christian B Malone
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Dalmatia
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Nathan Moldavsky
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Created around the 9th century BCE, this Babylonian cuneiform is described as the oldest map of the perceived known world. Located here is the city of Babylon. Historians presume that the horizontal rectangle is the Euphrates river, which divided Babylon.
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Nathan Moldavsky
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Jan 05 2024
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The second circle outside the main one depicts the ocean surrounding the city of Babylon. It's interesting how they depict their geography in spherical form. While we don't know whether their civilization was a perfectly circular island--or if the ocean, as depicted, takes up less space than their physical land, this tablet does provide an important attempt to visualize Babylon in relation to the greater world.
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Nathan Moldavsky
(@ngm2)
Jan 05 2024
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Resting at the mouth of the river is a canal and swamp, which the Babylonians label here. The circle directly below is labeled as Susa, the capital of Elam (located in present-day Iran).
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Nathan Moldavsky
(@ngm2)
Jan 05 2024
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The triangles outside of the ocean denote "nagu," or the "outer" regions that have been loosely or barely explored. The creators show there are five main triangles, or "outer" lands.
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Nathan Moldavsky
(@ngm2)
Jan 05 2024
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What's interesting here is that while all the other nagu are clearly closed regions, the outer land here is just a line. Translation shows that the Babylonians believed this was the "Great Wall, 6 leagues in between, where the Sun is not seen" (Wikipedia). Some believe this refers to a mountain range such as the Zagros or Himalayas, while the "six leagues" represent the vast Indian Ocean.
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Aly Eward
(@aly_eward)
Jan 05 2024
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map depicts the the known world during medieval time
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Aly Eward
(@aly_eward)
Jan 05 2024
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the map also represents a path from hell to heaven, this dot shows the heaven side
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Denis Sotnichenko
(@denishen)
Jan 05 2024
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Denis Sotnichenko
(@denishen)
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Greenand appeared
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Denis Sotnichenko
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Fletcher
(@Fletcher1)
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Fletcher
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Fletcher
(@Fletcher1)
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Depiction of "Mystical creatures" by Ottoman travelers
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Original map for abstract art created by MoMA Director Alfred Barr for his book in 1936.
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In the 19th century, the “Mountains of Kong” (no relation to King Kong) appeared on almost every map of Africa, sparking worldwide intrigue and wanderlust. The mountain range first appeared in a 1798 map created by James Rennell. The English cartographer was inspired by the journeys of Scotsman Mungo Park in West Africa, who reported that “people informed me, that these mountains were situated in a large and powerful kingdom called Kong.”
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HIST23B - Playground - January 2024
Exhibit Stories:
HIST23B - Playground - January 2024
An exhibit for playing around with Pixeum. For students of HIST23B, Williams College Winter Study, January 2024.
Questions: reach out to Tom Paper: tp12@williams.edu, tom@websterpacific.com, 415-699-5330, @tomadmin.
![[ 2024-12-31 23:33:36 ]](https://pxpbstrg.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/images/thumbs/1735688030.jpg)
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![Digital Humanities - Digitally Created Graphic Scores - Brandon Joung [REFER TO MY OTHER IMAGE]](https://pxpbstrg.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/images/thumbs/1705152202.png)
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