The Portolan

Issue #122 - Spring 2025

ARTICLES

Histories of Cartography: A History    by Matthew H. Edney

Solving the Paradoxes of North America’s East Coast in Juan Vespucci’s Planisphere of 1526    by Luis A. Robles Macías

Jerusalem’s Sacred Places and the Stations of the Cross     by Martin van Brauman

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Louis Miller.

BOOK REVIEWS

Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leadership (Reviewer: Patrick Leonard)

Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America (Reviewer: William C. Wooldridge)

Frames that Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps (Reviewer: Christine M. Petto)

The Book of Marvels: A Medieval Guide to the Globe (Reviewer: Evelyn Edson)

SHORTER ITEMS

1. WMS President’s Spring 2025 Letter, by Jeffrey Katz

2. Washington Map Society Meetings Program, Spring 2025, by Ron Grim

3. Exhibitions and Meetings, by Tom Sander

4. Ristow Prize Competition 2025

5. Bronson Edwards (Bron) Percival (1948–2024), by Tom Sander

6.Guidelines for Main Article Submissions to The Portolan

7. Cartographic Notes, by Tom Sander

8. Internet Map Sites (non-commercial)

9. Index to Advertisers