Language of Power
Lorraine Daston: Cartography, 1 November 2001
The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography
by J.B. Harley, edited by Paul Laxton.
Johns Hopkins, 331 pp., £31, June 2001,0 8018 6566 2 Show More
by J.B. Harley, edited by Paul Laxton.
Johns Hopkins, 331 pp., £31, June 2001,
Apollo’s Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination
by Denis Cosgrove.
Johns Hopkins, 331 pp., £32, June 2001,0 8018 6491 7 Show More
by Denis Cosgrove.
Johns Hopkins, 331 pp., £32, June 2001,
“... The mirror, the map and the photograph have all at one time or another served as emblems of the yearning for a representation so faithful and so complete that it can’t be distinguished from what it represents. Of the three, the map might appear to be the odd one out: the mirror and the photo may be two-dimensional illusions of a three-dimensional reality, and both are notoriously prone to distortion, but they operate by optical mechanisms that apparently guarantee a slavish fidelity to what can be seen ... ”
