Map 1 Resources

Books and Articles

Campbell, Tony. "Portolan Charts from the Late Thirteenth Century to 1500." In J.B. Harley and David Woodward, ed., The History of Cartography, vol. 1, Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp 371-463.

Clemens, Ray. "Gregorio Dati's La Sfera and Geographical Education in Fifteenth Century Florence." Newberry Library Slide Set Number 29. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 2002.

Danzer, Gerald. Cartographic Images of the World on the Eve of the Discoveries. Newberry Library Slide Set No. 8. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1988.

Danzer, Gerald. Images of the Earth on Three Early Italian Woodcuts: Candidates for the Earliest Printed Maps in the West. The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Occasional Publication No. 5. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1991.

Dilke, O. A. W. , J. B. Harley, and David Woodward. "The Culmination of Greek Cartography in Ptolemy." In J.B. Harley and David Woodward, eds., The History of Cartography, vol. 1, Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp. 177-200.

Greenhood, David. Mapping. Rev. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

Goben, Victoria, and her students. "'When Did They Make the World Like This?': Discovering New Worlds through an Ancient Map." OAH Magazine of History, vol. 7, no. 3 (Spring 1993): 9-15.

Goss, John. The Mapping of North America: Three Centuries of Map-Making 1500-1860. Secaucus, NJ: The Wellfleet Press, 1990.

Harley, J. B. , Ellen Hanlon, and Mark Warhus. Maps and the Columbian Encounter: An Interpretive Guide to the Travelling Exhibition. Milwaukee: The Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1990.

Jardine, Lisa. Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance. New York: Doubleday, 1996.

Monmonier, Mark, and George A. Schnell. Map Appreciation. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988. Pp. 1-35.

Penrose, Boies. Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance 1420-1620. New York: Atheneum, 1975.

Ptolemy, Claudius. The Geography. New York: Dover Publications, 1991. This is a reprint of a 1932 translation, but not of the Ulm edition from which the Core Map is taken. It includes reprints, though not in color, of the maps from the original.

Raisz, Erwin. Principles of Cartography. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. Pp. 166-94.

Robinson, Arthur H., et al. Elements of Cartography. 6th ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1995. Pp. 59-90.

Skelton, R.A. "Bibliographical Note." In Claudius Ptolemaeus, Cosmographia. Ulm 1482. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Series of Atlases in Facsimile, series 1, vol. 1. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1963. Pp. v-xi.

Snyder, John P. Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Whitfield, Peter. The Charting of the Oceans. Rohnert Park, California: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1996. This work includes interesting material about the use of winds in sailing and in navigating.

Whitfield, Peter. New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration. New York: Routledge, Inc., 1998.

Woodward, David. "Medieval Mappamundi." In J.B. Harley and David Woodward, ed., The History of Cartography, vol. 1, Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp 287-370.

On-line Resources
Map Projections

  1. The Map Projection Home Page (Department of Geography, Hunter College, City University of New York). http://geo.hunter.cuny.edu/mp/
  2. Map Projection Overview (Peter H. Dana, The Geographer's Craft Project, Department of Geography, The University of Colorado at Boulder). http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/mapproj/mapproj_f.html
  3. Carto Corner: Map Projections (The National Atlas of Canada Online) http://atlas.gc.ca/english/carto/cart003.html

Supplemental Images
Dati T-in-O Map. Leonardo Dati, "La Spera," translated by Gregorio Dati (Florence, c. 1425).

Grades K-2 Resources
uncolored version of the core map. Facsimile prepared by Sharon Knight.

Grades 3-5 Resources
Dati T-in-O map
Roselli portolan chart

Grades 9-12 Resources
uncolored version of the core map. Facsimile prepared by Sharon Knight.

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