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e-Perimetron is a pluralist peer reviewed international journal which does not obey any particular ideological, theoretical or methodological approach in dealing with humanistic, artistic, scientific and technological issues related to map history and cartographic heritage in the large.
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The IMCoS Journal is a quarterly publication. It includes a wide range articles on the history of cartography addressing Western, Asian and Arabic mapping practices; its scope is designed to interest our worldwide membership.
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Contents

  • History and Cartography
    • Levinus Hulsius Gandensis - How a brewer from Ghent turned a mapmaker, Caroline De Candt, pp. 5-17
    • Cartographic depictions of Ukraine Part I: Beginnings, Beauplan and Beyond, Voldymir Dmyterko, pp. 18-26
    • Making a frontier - The Brussels line between Iraq and Turkey, Marc Dassier, pp. 27-28
  • International News
    • Welcome to our new member, Alexandre Pingel, p. 28
    • On the Origin and Evolution of the Nautical Chart (international workshop), Luis A. Robles Macias, pp. 29-31
  • The Brussels Map Circle News
    • Frames that speak - an introduction to cartographic cartouches. Lecture by Chet Van Duzer, François Mattelaer, pp. 33-34
    • Map Afternoon - Saturday 22 april 2023, Henri Godts, p. 35-36
    • Annual General Meeting 2023, p. 37-38

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The Portolan is the journal of the Washington Map Society; it furthers the purpose of the Society “to support and promote map collecting, cartography and the study of cartographic history.” The Portolan, the largest and most-widely distributed publication of its kind in the Americas, is issued three times per year, in the Spring/Summer, the Fall and Winter.
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Cartography in the European Enlightenment, edited by Matthew H. Edney and Mary S. Pedley, volume 4 of The History of Cartography (Chicago, 2019) is now online for free. The Press has added the volume to the other volumes of the series already online for free public access (1–3 and 6).
Go to https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html to access all the volumes.
Cartography in the European Enlightenment explores all aspects of mapping in the long eighteenth century (1650-1800) in Europe, Europe's overseas empires and trading companies, in Russia, and in the Ottoman Empire. It is arranged by major mapping practices (geographical mapping, property mapping, marine charting, etc.) and by major communities of map consumers (military, civil government, the emergent public). It is the starting point for anyone seeking to learn more about mapping at a time when maps served as a foundational metaphor for the organization of knowledge.

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The Portolan is the journal of the Washington Map Society; it furthers the purpose of the Society “to support and promote map collecting, cartography and the study of cartographic history.” The Portolan, the largest and most-widely distributed publication of its kind in the Americas, is issued three times per year, in the Spring/Summer, the Fall and Winter.
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Contents

  • Pictures at an exhibition
    • The World in Maps 1400 – 1600
    • Pieter Pourbus, Master of Maps - Excursion of the Brussels Map Circle
      • Lecture by Dr Jan Trachet
      • Visit to the Groeningemuseum
      • Visit to the Gruuthuse museum and City Hall
  • History and Cartography
    • Les atlas de Louis XIV [The Atlases of Louis XIV]
    • Maps of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
  • The Brussels Map Circle News
    • 9th International Symposium of the International Cartographic Association’s (ICA) Commission on the History of Cartography in Berlin
    • Berlinghieri’s Geography Unveiled

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From the lobby of the Metropole Hotel (Brussels): a relief map of Belgium with cities, roads and waterways lighting up on the map by pushing the button corresponding to the directory. On sale at Drouot on 30 March 2023 at 14.00 h.
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