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Author: Caitlin Dempsey
• 1/28/05 • Categorized as Maps
Web site at the Library of Congress, this collection of over 2240 maps and 76 atlases from the Library of Congress, the Virgina Historical Society and the Library of Virginia documents the United States Civil War.
The Look of Maps: An Examination of Cartographic Design is a cartographic classic by Arthur H. Robinson originally published in 1952. The book was based on Robinson’s doctoral research “which investigated the relationship between science and art in cartography and the resultant refinement of graphic techniques in mapmaking to present dynamic geographic information.”