cartography
Around Britain with a theodolite: a celebration of the Ordnance Survey maps
With their finely drawn symbols for hedges, fences, ‘gentlemen’s seats’ and letterboxes, the first maps gave the intimacies of landscape a cosy storybook intensity
Mapping the Emerald Isle: Land, by Maggie O’Farrell, reviewed
‘Maps are acts of colonisation, enemy tools,’ says Tomás, a reluctant cartographer in 19th-century Ireland, where cruel English landowners lord it over soulful, downtrodden locals
Versailles’s role as a palace of science
The vast seat of Bourbon power also doubled as a laboratory for experiments in astronomy, hydraulics, engineering, ballooning, medicine, mathematics and cartography
Not as good as his immoral brother Eric but still wonderful: Max Gill at Ditchling reviewed
MacDonald ‘Max’ Gill (1884–1947) is less well known than his notorious brother, Eric. But was he less of a designer,…
What you’ll never find in the road atlas
Picture the map of Britain. Its strangely cadaverous shape, blobs of population and routes between them seem as familiar as…
