Thank you for registering for yesterday's program hosted by Mary Pedley, Clements Library Assistant Map Curator, and Matthew Edney, Osher Chair in the History of Cartography at the University of Southern Maine. The second session of this 3-part Discover Series focused on The Minutiae behind Mapmaking. Please find below a list of resources and the recording.

Link to Recording

Guest Presenter


Gottfried Hagen

Professor of Turkish Studies

University of Michigan LSA Middle East Studies
Portrait of Gottfried Hagen
Heart-shaped map of the world, surrounded by text in Ottoman Turkish

Turkish language cordiform world map by a Tunisian named Hadji Ahmed, printed in 1795 in Venice, using woodblocks cut in 1559. Clements Library Catalog Record. 

Other Resources


Free Online Access to Volume I, Volume 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and Volume 3

and Volume 6


Use code UCPNEW to receive 20% off of the purchase price


A blog by Matthew Edney on the study of Mapping Processes: Production, Circulation, and Consumption


Further Reading on the Ottoman Empire:

Next in the Series

March 23 @ 4 PM - Session 3 - Digitization and Cartography Research

Mary Pedley & Matthew Edney are joined by Karl Longstreth (Clark Library, University of Michigan) on the many challenges of digitizing maps and the advantages to research that such images bring. 

Access the Resources and Recording from Session 1 on March 9.
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