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November 11, 2009
David Woodward, ed. The History of Cartography, Volume 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance (2 vols.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 2272 pp.; 80 color ills.; 815 b/w ills. Cloth $400.00 (9780226907321)
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In 1987, when the first volume (Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean) of the History of Cartography series was published, the study of maps was a much different field than it is today. At the biennial International Conference on the History of Cartography, organized by the map-history journal Imago Mundi, presentations by dealers, collectors, and specialists in geography far outnumbered those from scholars in the humanities. The relationship between art history...