The Harvard Map Collection Presents - Embellishing the Map:How Cartographers Confronted Empty Spaces

Name: The Harvard Map Collection Presents - Embellishing the Map:How Cartographers Confronted Empty Spaces
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Take a looks at the <a href='http://library.harvard.edu/map' rel='nofollow ugc' style='' target='_blank'>Harvard Map Collection</a>'s interactive exhibit 'Embellishing the Map,' which explores the myriad varieties and uses of embellishments found on the library's extraordinary collection of maps. This exhibition presents maps chosen from the Harvard Map Collection that display how European cartographers, mainly from the Low Countries of the 16th and 17th centuries, embellished maps with a variety of illustrative, non-cartographic elements. With echoes of the classical world’s anxiety of the “horror vacuii” (fear of empty spaces), the uncharted and unknown spaces are populated with sea creatures and animals, from the mythic and fantastic to the zoologically accurate, and many varieties of ships plying the open seas. All in their natural habitat, which is to say located on the land and seas of the map, not as artistic embellishments in cartouches or title panels (something for another exhibition, perhaps). The sources for the cartographic fauna run the gamut from classical sources (the histories of Herodotus and Pliny the Elder), Medieval bestiaries and compendiums of the natural world (Hortus Sanitatis), to accounts from the ever peripatetic explorers. The maps are presented in loosely geographic order, beginning (where everything begins) with the heavens, then, after a medieval view of the known world, moves from the Western Hemisphere eastward to the Pacific Ocean. Besides the few modern, more thematic maps that have been included for contrast, chronologically this exhibition effectively ends before the ascendancy of the Royally sponsored French cartographers of the 18th century. The maps of Delisle, Bellin, d’Anville and the distinguished Cassini dynasty migrate the sea creatures, animals and ships to the pages and articles of Diederot’s grand Encyclopedia. What now is presented on the map reflects the science of cartography and measurement reigning supreme, not alas (as seen in the 1541 map “Tabula noua partis Africae”), a King riding a bridled Sea Carp!

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