- Dec 17, 2024
- John W. Mackey
Practical Knowledge and the New Republic
Learn about the intricacies of Carleton’s 1795 map from Dr. John W. Mackey, a Master Lecturer of Social Sciences in the College of General Studies at Boston University.
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- Dec 15, 2023
- Amberly Yeo
A World(view) Transformed by War
See how the Qing Empire's mapping of world geography changed during and after the imposition of European power in the Opium Wars
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- Jul 30, 2023
- Radu Leca
Divergent Meanings of Place in Mapping Japan: La Pérouse’s Tangential Encounter
When a French captain sailed past Japan in the late eighteenth century, a guess about toponyms set off a century of cartographic confusions
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- Jan 11, 2023
- Richard Pegg
Korean Yeojido Atlases
How did Korean cartography evolve in the Joseon period? Explore this interactive Map Chat from the MacLean Collection to learn more about a fascinating collection of atlases.
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- Jun 30, 2022
- Elke Papelitzky
A Japanese Map of the World
In this interactive Map Chat from the MacLean Collection, learn more about how Japanese mapmakers saw the world in late 18th and early 19th centuries
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- May 18, 2022
- Anne-Sophie Pratte
A Qing Dynasty Imperial Route Map
Travel alongside the Qianlong Emperor in this interactive tour of a map nearly twenty feet long
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- Mar 16, 2022
- Mirela Altic
Rediscovering a Map of the Amazon
A 1755 map created by a German Jesuit missionary for the Portuguese Empire casts new light on early European efforts to map the Amazon River valley
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- Nov 16, 2021
- Richard Pegg
A Chinese Maritime Map of the Sea and Stars
A video tour through an intriguing "pie chart" maritime diagram for a ship in the South China Sea
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- Jul 30, 2021
- Richard Pegg
Zhuang Tingfu: Cartographic Encounters and Echoes
In the late eighteenth century, an encounter between European and Chinese cartography left clues about the diffusion of geographic knowledge
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