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Volume 1: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and theMediterranean (1987)

Volume 2, Book 1: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South AsianSocieties (1992)

Volume 2, Book 2: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast AsianSocieties (1995)

Volume 2, Book 3: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic,Australian, and Pacific Societies (1998)

Volume 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance (2007)

Volume 4: Cartography in the European Enlightenment

Volume 5: Cartography in the Nineteenth Century

Volume 6: Cartography in the Twentieth Century

A New and Correct Map of the World Projected upon thePlane of the Horizon Laid Down from the Newest

Discoveries and Most Exact Observations.

Hand-colored copper engraving by Charles Price (London,1714). Courtesy of the Osher Map Library, University of

Southern Maine.

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David Woodward MemorialFellowship

(updated 1 October 2013)

Cartographic Resources(updated 3 July 2013)

Exploratory Essays Initiative for Volume Six (updated 6 October 2009)

Windows on the WorldExhibit

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About The Project

The History of Cartography Project is a research, editorial, and publishing venturedrawing international attention to the history of maps and mapping. The Project's majorwork is the multi-volume History of Cartography series. Its inter-disciplinary approachbrings together scholars in the arts, sciences, and humanities. By considering previouslyignored aspects of cartographic history, the Project encourages a broader view of mapsthat has significantly influenced other fields of study.

Organized by region and time period, The History of Cartography looks at maps in thecontext of the societies that made and used them. The volumes integrate existingscholarship with new research, examining an unprecedented range of artifacts from localmaps to those of the cosmos. The books are extensively illustrated and contain detailedfootnotes, appendixes, and reference maps. The award winning series, founded by J. B.Harley and David Woodward, is now edited by a team of scholars and published by theUniversity of Chicago Press.

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Please consider supporting the History of Cartography Project. Gifts are tax deductible and maybe matched by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Donors are acknowledged on thefinancial support page of the books and in our winter newsletter. As a token of our thanks,supporters also receive a limited edition, hand-printed broadsheet featuring a literary passageabout cartography.

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Cartographic Resources on the Net

A brief selection of links that may be of interest to visitors to the History of Cartography Project web site.More resources concerning map history may be found using any web search engine.

General Map History Home page, http://www.maphistory.info/The International Society for the History of the Map, http://ishm.elte.hu/David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, http://www.davidrumsey.com/John Docktor's calendar of conferences, meetings, lectures and fairs,http://home.earthlink.net/~docktor/intro.htm


David Woodward Memorial Fellowship

in the History of Cartography Institute for Research in the Humanities

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Now accepting applications for 2014-2015.

Deadline to apply is Friday, 6 December 2013, for the next available fellowship, which is to be taken

any two months between July 2014 and June 2015. Please forward this announcement to appropriate venues.

Application materials are available for download as PDF files:

/histcart/applydwfellowinfo2013.pdf

/histcart/applydwfellow2013.pdf

The Fellowship

Institute for Research in the Humanitiesand the History of Cartography Project, at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison (UW), hold an annual competition for the DavidWoodward Memorial Fellowship in the History of Cartography. The fellowship gives

scholars an opportunity to research and write on a subject related to the history ofcartography in a stimulating academic environment. Proposals should complement oneof the forthcoming volumes of The History of Cartography. It is preferred that the2014-15 fellow will focus on under-studied topics in nineteenth-century cartography(related to Volume Five of The History of Cartography, but this is not required and thechoice of subject matter is otherwise open. Fellows are provided with office space(when available) and access to all UW–Madison libraries and campus facilities.Participation in the lively, interdisciplinary community of the Institute is stronglyencouraged.

The UW–Madison libraries are particularly well suited to humanistic and cartographicscholarship. Memorial Library (with three million volumes) is the principal researchfacility on campus for the humanities and social sciences and has an excellent collectionof historical monographs and reference books. It also houses an extensive periodicalcollection. The Department of Special Collections contains the Chester H. ThordarsonCollection in the history of science and is strong in the history of books and printing.The Geography Library contains UW’s primary collection on geography andcartography and is housed in Science Hall, which is also the location of the GeographyDepartment, the Robinson Map Library, and the History of Cartography Project office.The History of Cartography Project maintains an archive of articles and illustrationsused in previous volumes that is available for consultation. More information on UW–Madison’s libraries may be found at http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/.

The annual residential fellowship is granted in memory of David Woodward (1942-2004), a founding editor of The History of Cartography and a Senior Fellow at theInstitute for Research in the Humanities (1997-2002), and is made possible by thegenerosity of Arthur and Janet Holzheimer. The stipend, currently $7,000, supportstravel to Madison and costs associated with the two-month residency. This amount issubject to taxes in accordance with U.S. law and international tax treaties; fellows willbe required to pay fees for short-term health insurance premiums or other servicesmandated by the UW–Madison.

Fellowship Recipients

2013-14 Mirela Altić(CROATIA)

Mapping the Nations: The 19th CenturyCartography between Imperial Politics andNational Movements–A Case Study of Croatia

2012-13 Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez(SPAIN)

Marginalia in cARTography

Exhibit at the Chazen Museum of Art on theUW–Madison campus: 1 March to 18 May2014

2011-12 Jeremy Crampton(USA)

Cartography and Cartographers at the Origins ofAmerica’s First Spy Agency: The Office ofStrategic Services and its Development (1917-1945)

2010-11 Alexey Postnikov(Russia)

Mapping Russia's Frontiers and its Influence onDevelopment of Ideas and Methods in RussianNational Cartography (late Eighteenth andNineteenth Centuries)

2009-10 Carla Lois(Argentina)

Mapping modernity: Science and civilization inArgentinian cartographical institutions (1853-1941)

2008-09 Stéphane Blond(France)

Administrative maps in Europe, 1650-1800

2007-08 Isaac Sáenz(Peru)

Urban cartography and Enlightenment in lateviceregal Peru (1687-1800)

2006-07 Zsolt Török(Hungary)

Marsigli, Marinoni, Mikoviny: Enlightenmentcartography in east-central Europe (c. 1700-1750)

2005-06 Valeria Pansini(France)

Military cartography in the Enlightenment:Fieldwork and the body of the surveyor

2004-05 MercedesCamino (NewZealand)

Narratives and maps of four eighteenth-centurySpanish voyages to the Pacific (c. 1770-1780)

2003-04 Neil Safier(USA)

The intersections of anthropology, history, andcartography in the context of eighteenth-century colonial Iberoamerica

2002-03 Phil Steinberg(USA)

Origins of the territorial state in early modernmarine cartography, 1450-1800

2001-02 George Tolias(Greece)

Forms of map collecting in the Renaissance andthe function of maps in the creation ofencyclopedic knowledge


David Woodward

29 August 1942 - 25 August 2004

David Woodward, cofounder of the award-winning History of Cartography series andArthur H. Robinson Professor of Geography Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW), died of cancer on 25 August 2004, at his home in Madison. His passingwas peaceful, and he was surrounded by his family.

David Woodward was born in 1942 in Royal Leamington Spa, England. After receiving abachelor’s degree from the University of Wales, Swansea, he came to the United States tostudy cartography under Arthur H. Robinson at UW–Madison, where he earned adoctorate in geography in 1970. David spent the next eleven years at the NewberryLibrary in Chicago as cartographic specialist, curator of maps, and, from 1974 to 1980,director of its Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography. In 1980David joined the faculty of UW–Madison’s Geography Department and was namedArthur H. Robinson Professor of Geography in 1995. He retired from teaching in August2002 to dedicate more of his time to research, editing, and outreach.

During a 1977 walk through the countryside in Exeter, England, David Woodward and J.Brian Harley (UW–Milwaukee) developed the idea for what became The History of

Cartography. They envisioned an ambitious multi-volume reference work that wouldexamine the social production and consumption of maps across cultures from prehistoricorigins to the twentieth century. When Harley died unexpectedly in 1991, Davidcontinued the Project, knowing that his friend and colleague’s influence would always befelt.

David skillfully balanced his work on the History of Cartography Project with his otherscholarly endeavors and academic responsibilities. In addition to the many awardsgarnered by the published volumes of The History of Cartography (follow links at/histcart/series.html for more information about each individual volume), David’sinternational reputation was acknowledged closer to home. He was honored to receive afive-year senior membership at the UW Institute for Research in the Humanities, the UW–Madison Hilldale award in the arts and humanities, and the College of Letters andSciences Career Service Award, among many other distinctions. He gave hundreds ofpublic lectures, discussing and developing new ideas with others as well as disseminatinghis research.

David was a prolific and well-regarded scholar; his individual research and editorial workswere widely disseminated and highly acclaimed. Among David’s numerous publicationsare: The All-American Map: Wax-Engraving and Its Influence on Cartography (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1977); Catalogue of Watermarks in Italian Maps, ca. 1540-

1600 (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1996); Maps as Prints in the Italian Renaissance:

Makers, Distributors & Consumers (The 1995 Panizzi Lectures) (London: British Library,1996); Cultural Map of Wisconsin: A Cartographic Portrait of the State (Madison:University of Wisconsin Press, 1996), with Robert C. Ostergren, Onno Brouwer, StevenHoelscher, and Joshua G. Hane; and Approaches and Challenges in a Worldwide History

of Cartography (Barcelona: Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, 2001), with CatherineDelano Smith and Cordell Yee.

In spite of his many accomplishments, David was an unassuming man. As one friendsimply wrote: “he was by far one of the nicest and most genuine people I have ever met.He had a great presence—and a great laugh. He will be missed dearly.”

Link to PDF New York Times obituary

Link to Wikipedia entry on David Woodward

Link to a translation of Roger Bacon's Opus Maius (ca. 1268), which wasmade as an aid in writing "Roger Bacon on Geography and Cartography,"by David Woodward and Herbert M. Howe in Roger Bacon and the

Sciences: Commemorative Essays, ed. Jeremiah Hackett (Leiden: E. J.Brill, 1997), 199-222. It is posted here for the convenience of researchers.


To the David Woodward Memorial Fellowship page

"Windows on the World: A Selection of Historical Maps"

"Windows on the World" was an exhibit at the University of Wisconsin Department of

Special Collections that was launched on the occasion of the 24th annual Institute for

Research in the Humanities Burdick-Vary symposium on Cartography in the European

Renaissance (6-8 April 2000). The symposium was intended as a forum for issues

arising out of the research for Volume Three of the History of Cartography Project.

"Windows on the World" reveals to the general public and university community some

of the many historical map resources currently available in University of Wisconsin

library collections. These cartographic treasures are often overlooked, embedded as

they are in a huge library system that must respond to dozens of demanding

undergraduate and graduate programs. We hope that this exhibit reminds not only

scholars in the history of cartography and the historical geography of the Midwest but

the general public as well of these rich primary collections.

Windows on the World Virtual Exhibit


Contacts(updated 7 June 2013)

Mailing address:

The History of Cartography Project

Department of Geography

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Madison, WI 53706-1404 USA

General phone: 608-263-3992

General fax: 608-263-0762

General email:

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Administrative email:

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Matthew H. Edney, Project Director and Editor,

Volume Four, Cartography in the European Enlightenment Telephone: 207-780-4767Email: [email protected]

Mary Pedley, Editor,Volume Four, Cartography in the European Enlightenment

Telephone: 734-764-2347Email: [email protected]

Roger Kain, Editor,Volume Five, Cartography in the Nineteenth Century

Telephone: +44 (0)207-862-8736Email: [email protected]

Mark Monmonier, Editor,Volume Six, Cartography in the Twentieth Century

Telephone: 315-443-5641Email: [email protected]

Jude Leimer, Managing Editor Telephone: 608-263-9347


Beth Freundlich, Project Manager Telephone: 608-263-3992


Renee Raines, Financial Administrator Telephone: 608-263-3992



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