Archive for November, 2013

Alexander von Humboldt: master of infographics

Last month I presented a paper at the Nebenzahl Lectures on the History of Cartography in Chicago. My subject was cartographic innovation during the early American republic — essentially the...

November 19, 2013 | 18th-century images, 19th-century images, environmental maps, graphs and timelines, thematic maps | Read More »