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Title
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Charting the Ephemeral: The Evolution of Climate Knowledge
Description
An account of the resource
A collection of maps and charts illustrating techniques and methods for manually depicting weather data. The project explores the ways in which early meteorologists sought to understand their environments, how the technological advancements such as the invention of the barometer, telegraph, and RADAR impacted knowledge of world climate.
Creator
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Jose Rivera
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
US/World
Historical Map
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Engraver
W.C. Woodbridge
Type
individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital
Atlas map
Collection
Name of collection of which the map is a part
Rumsey Collection
Call Number
012025762
URL or Unique Identifier
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/workspace/handleMediaPlayer?lunaMediaId=RUMSEY~8~1~28876~1120995
Date Published
1837
Date Depicted
1837
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Title
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Isothermal chart, or view of climates & productions (1937)
Description
An account of the resource
Building off his previous previous work, Woodbridge again depicts isothermal conditions. Here, he updates the way the planting information is displayed (in boxes, with horizontal text). Overall, Woodbridge notes that the figures on the chart indicate mean annual temperature of the places depicted. The dotted lines crossing the chart point out the places which have equal degrees of heat. Theres form the boundaries of the Regions distinguished by color.
What is also interesting about this map is that it appears to also be a planting calendar, suggesting what crops are best suited for each Region. These are depicted by the unbroken vertical lines reaching from each of the dotted Regional lines.
Creator
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W.C. Woodbridge
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Belknap & Hamersley: Hartford Connecticut
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1837
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Scale [ca. 1:80,000,000] (W 125°--E 120°/N 74°--S 57°)
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Atlas Map
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World
agriculture
Climate
climate data
climate zones
color
isothermal chart
mountains
planting calendar
temperature
world map
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Title
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Charting the Ephemeral: The Evolution of Climate Knowledge
Description
An account of the resource
A collection of maps and charts illustrating techniques and methods for manually depicting weather data. The project explores the ways in which early meteorologists sought to understand their environments, how the technological advancements such as the invention of the barometer, telegraph, and RADAR impacted knowledge of world climate.
Creator
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Jose Rivera
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
US/World
Historical Map
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Type
individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital
Map part of Woodbridge’s School Atlas to Accompany Woodbridge’s Rudiments of Geography: Atlas on a New Pla
Collection
Name of collection of which the map is a part
[Graphic Arts Collection].
Date Published
Hartford, Conn.: Oliver D. Cooke & Co., [1823])
Engraver
W.C. Woodbridge
Date Depicted
January 13, 1823
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Title
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Isothermal Chart, or View of Climates & Production, Drawn from the Accounts of Humboldt & Others
Description
An account of the resource
First world isothermal chart. Woodbridge notes that the figures on the chart indicate mean annual temperature of the places depicted. The dotted lines crossing the chart point out the places which have equal degrees of heat. Theres form the boundaries of the Regions distinguished by color.
What is also interesting about this map is that it appears to also be a planting calendar, suggesting what crops are best suited for each Region. These are depicted by the unbroken vertical lines reaching from each of the dotted Regional lines.
Creator
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W.C. Woodbridge
Source
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From Woodbridge’s School Atlas to Accompany Woodbridge’s Rudiments of Geography: Atlas on a New Plan
Publisher
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Hartford, Conn.: Oliver D. Cooke & Co., [1823])
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
January 13, 1823
Format
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Engraved map, with added color, 20.3 × 28.2 cm, scale not given
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World
Language
A language of the resource
English
agriculture
Climate
climate data
color
isothermal chart
planting calendar
temperature
world map
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Title
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Charting the Ephemeral: The Evolution of Climate Knowledge
Description
An account of the resource
A collection of maps and charts illustrating techniques and methods for manually depicting weather data. The project explores the ways in which early meteorologists sought to understand their environments, how the technological advancements such as the invention of the barometer, telegraph, and RADAR impacted knowledge of world climate.
Creator
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Jose Rivera
Coverage
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US/World
Historical Map
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Cartographer
Edmund Halley
Type
individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital
Map from book, included in the no. 183 (1686) of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London
URL or Unique Identifier
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/thematic-maps/quantitative/meteorology/halley-map-1686.jpg
Format notes
Scale not given
Collection
Name of collection of which the map is a part
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London
Date Published
1686
Date Depicted
1686
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Title
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An untitled, copperplate world map (First meteorological map)
Description
An account of the resource
First meteorological map, charting the directions of trade winds and monsoons. Information was collected from navigators familiar with ocean transits, and also from his own tropical experience on St. Helena (1677–1678). On the map, rows of brief lines show the course of the winds; the sharp ends of those lines point to wind sources. Where winds go back and forth, notably in the monsoon-prone area of the Indian Ocean, the lines are thicker than elsewhere and point both ways.
Creator
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Edmond Halley
Source
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French version of Halley's map, accompanying a French translation of his article "An Historical Account of the Trade Winds, and Monsoons, Observable in the Seas between and near the Tropicks, with an Attempt to Assign the Physical Cause of the Said Wind,"
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1686
Format
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14.8 × 48 cm, scale not given
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Map
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
no. 183 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London (1686)
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World
arrows
Climate
climate data
colorless
lines
meteorology
monsoons
seas
trade winds
weather
world map
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Title
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Mapping disease
Description
An account of the resource
My final project investigates the different ways of mapping disease throughout history and how this can be seen as a product of attitudes towards disease and understanding of the underlying mechanisms at a particular time. While now producing maps of disease is a basic tool in epidemiology and public health, this way of visualizing disease patterns did not develop until around the turn of the 19th century. Prompted in part by serious epidemics of cholera and yellow fever, maps became an important tool in the mission to understand the mode of transmission of disease. In particular, maps were key in the debate over and development of germ theory. Later, maps were also used to disseminate awareness to the general public, and no longer remained the preserve of scientists and public health officials in academic contexts. For this initial map collection I aimed to display three maps that show significantly different ways of thinking about infectious disease. In particular, they show three key stages in the understanding of disease: initial mapping to attempt to discern a mode of transmission, knowledge of a vector and its range, and an attempt to communicate the urgency and danger of disease to the public.
Creator
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Isabella C
Historical Map
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Type
individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital
Book figure
URL or Unique Identifier
https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:7142160$7i
Digital Repository
Open Collections Program at Harvard University
Date Depicted
1817-1831
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History of the epidemic spasmodic cholera of Russia
Creator
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Francis Bisset Hawkins
Publisher
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J. Murray (London)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1831
Description
An account of the resource
This map shows how the cholera epidemic spread across the world from 1817-1831. The only cities labeled on the map are places at which cholera was recorded during the epidemic, clearly showing the impressive geographical range the epidemic reached. This map is particularly interesting because it aims to depict change over time, by including the date at which cholera was first recorded at that specific place on most of the labels. It is not initially very easy to determine where the epidemic originated and the path it took because there is no guide other than the dates, so you have to read all the labels to get a sense of the narrative that the map is telling – it is not very visually obvious. Assessing the path of transmission of a disease is key in identifying the mechanism by which it is spread, and this map is an excellent example of an attempt to better understand cholera, laying the pathway for the discovery of waterborne transmission in the next 20-30 years.
Coverage
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World
Source
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Book: "History of the epidemic spasmodic cholera of Russia :including a copious account of the disease which has prevailed in India, and which has travelled, under that name,
from Asia into Europe, illustrated by numerous official and other documents, explanatory of the nature, treatment, and prevention of the malady"
cholera
dates
disease
IC
Place Names
rivers
transmission
world map
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Title
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Mapping disease
Description
An account of the resource
My final project investigates the different ways of mapping disease throughout history and how this can be seen as a product of attitudes towards disease and understanding of the underlying mechanisms at a particular time. While now producing maps of disease is a basic tool in epidemiology and public health, this way of visualizing disease patterns did not develop until around the turn of the 19th century. Prompted in part by serious epidemics of cholera and yellow fever, maps became an important tool in the mission to understand the mode of transmission of disease. In particular, maps were key in the debate over and development of germ theory. Later, maps were also used to disseminate awareness to the general public, and no longer remained the preserve of scientists and public health officials in academic contexts. For this initial map collection I aimed to display three maps that show significantly different ways of thinking about infectious disease. In particular, they show three key stages in the understanding of disease: initial mapping to attempt to discern a mode of transmission, knowledge of a vector and its range, and an attempt to communicate the urgency and danger of disease to the public.
Creator
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Isabella C
Historical Map
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Type
individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital
Individual sheet map, included with a magazine
URL or Unique Identifier
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~290431~90061990:World-Map-of-the-Major-Tropical-Dis?sort=pub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date&qvq=q:disease;sort:pub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=21&trs=22
Digital Repository
David Rumsey Map Collection
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Title
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World Map of the Major Tropical Diseases
Creator
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Boris Artzybasheff
Publisher
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Time, Inc. (New York)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1944
Description
An account of the resource
This map, produced in 1944, shows major “tropical diseases” and where they occur in the world. A stylized image of the vector or symptoms of the disease is drawn over each afflicted region. Along the bottom of the map is a key describing which image refers to which disease, with a short block of text giving more background about each disease below the corresponding image. Interestingly, malaria is the only disease not identified by an image, and instead malarial zones are just colored pink. The map overall creates an almost gruesome image in which the world is covered in insects, pests, and deformed humans. It is a very unconventional way of depicting disease since the area that each image marks and the ranges of diseases are very vague. It would not be very useful for an epidemiologist, but is a striking way of conveying to the viewer the number of diseases that afflict the world and to what extent we possess the ability to treat them. The decision to depict malaria so differently raises an interesting question about perception of that disease in particular.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World
Source
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Life Magazine
Format
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36 x 53 cm (sheet)
artzybasheff
cholera
dengue
disease
fly
helminthic disease
IC
images
Japanese river fever
leishmaniasis
leprosy
magazine
malaria
mosquito
pests
plague
rat
relapsing fever
Rocky Mountain fever
sleeping sickness
text
tick
tularemia
typhus
world map
worm
yaws
yellow fever
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Historical Map
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Cartographer
Juan Vespucci
Date Published
1524
Call Number
51-2573
URL or Unique Identifier
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:595281?buttons=y
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Vespucci World Map
Description
An account of the resource
Polar projection of the world
Creator
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Juan Vespucci
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1524
16th century
Bodies of Water
calculation lines
castle
coastlines
engraving
equator
globe
hand pointing
IC
italy
latin
Latitude
longitute
missing coastlines
mountains
no political boundary lines
polar projection
rivers
shading
tropics
vespucci
world map
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Historical Map
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Bowles and Carver Map used for Complete and Elegant Imperialism
18th century
Colonialism
Eurocentric
Frozen Ocean
Great Britain
Imperialism
Instuctions
Islands
Known parts
London
melissab
Mercator projection
Navigation
northern hemisphere
Numbered
rivers
seas
Tour
travel
World geography gameboard
world map