num_pages: 208
description: In our modern day and age when satellite imagery and GPS services like Google Maps offer strikingly accurate images of the world we can easily forget that for most of human history the world was an unknown tabula rasa on which cartographers scientists men of god and kings imprinted their own dreams and ideals. In our modern day and age when satellite imagery and GPS services like Google Maps offer strikingly accurate images of the world we can easily forget that for most of human history the world was an unknown tabula rasa on which cartographers scientists men of god and kings imprinted their own dreams and ideals.. We will juxtapose 18th century Buddhist cartography in Japan with European mercantile maps of the same period. We will travel with speculative cartographers and they argue in the scientific academies of Paris London and St. Petersburg over theories about what 'must' fill the great unknown. We will observe the emergence of the modern world view through the cartographic lens. We will see how much like reading a long lost childhood diary old maps are touching earnest reminders that our former selves' knowledge and perception of the world are rich and limited at the same time.
language: English
title: A Journey Back in Time Through Maps
publisher: White Star Publishing