Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2594: Ptolemy’s Geographia
Posted on · Episode: 2594 Mapping the World: Ptolemy’s Geographia. Today, a man and a map.
Tag: cartography
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1501: Horizontal Diffusion
Posted on · Episode: 1501 The orientation of continents determines their development. Today, the advantage of being horizontal.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1462: Jedidiah Morse
Posted on · Episode: 1462 Jedidiah Morse, geographer and Samuel F. B. Morse’s father. Today, Jedidiah Morse’s geography.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2594: Ptolemy’s Geographia
Posted on · Episode: 2594 Mapping the World: Ptolemy's Geographia. Today, a man and a map.
Houston Matters
‘Mapping Texas’ Looks at 300 Years of Shifting Texas Boundaries
Posted on · The Houston Museum of Natural Science is known for geodes and stars and dinosaurs, but a new exhibit aims to make cartography just as exciting as a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Mapping Texas: From Frontier to the Lone Star State shows off 50 maps, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, that document the discovery of […]