H-110. The Art & Science of Cartography, 200–1550 - Advance Reading List

• Required Reading

  Berggren, J. Lennart and Alexander Jones, Ptolemy’s Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

  Hankins, James. “Ptolemy’s Geography in the Renaissance.” In The Marks in the Fields: Essays on the Use of Manuscripts, edited by Rodney G. Dennis and Elizabeth Falsey, 119–127. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

  Hessler, John. The Naming of America: Martin Waldseemuller’s 1507 World Map and the Cosmographiae Introductio. London: Giles Ltd. and Library of Congress, 2008.

  Hessler, John. “Conceptual Problems in the History of Cartography: A Manifesto for the Study of Early Mapmaking.” Course outline.

  Jones, Alexander. “Ptolemy’s Geography: Mapmaking and the Scientific Enterprise.” In Ancient Perspectives: Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome, edited by Richard J.A. Talbert, 109–128. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

  Söderström, Ola. “How Images Assemble the World.” In New Geographies 4: Scales of the Earth, 113–120. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2011.

  Westfall, Richard S. “The Background to the Mathematization of Nature.” In Isaac Newton’s Natural Philosophy, edited by Jed Buchwald and I. Bernard Cohen, 321–339. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

  Wilson, Matt. New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

• Recommended Reading

  Hessler, John W. A Renaissance Globemaker’s Toolbox: Johannes Schoner and the Revolution of Modern Science, 1475–1550. London: D. Giles Ltd. and The Library of Congress, 2013.

  Norman, Jesse, After Euclid: Visual Reasoning & the Epistemology of Diagrams. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2006.