[ISHMap-List] Blank Spots

[Joel Kovarsky]

On 2/24/14,  Robert Batchelor wrote:
> Antartica was almost always partially blank well into the 1950's on 
> most commercial maps, but the fashion shifted towards both filling in 
> space and to not showing parts of Antartica that were uncertain--cf. 
> the National Geographic World Map of 1960 for example which at points 
> almost appears medieval in its annotations.  But I suspect that there 
> were still maps in the 60's and 70's with blank spaces in Antartica 
> and elsewhere.  After 1972, landsat and even before that aerial 
> photography allowed for at least the illusion of comprehensiveness, 
> and the problem then becomes the level of generality.


I suppose if you stretch the subject, you might consider the following 
(this specifically excludes silences predicated on geographic ignorance):

Silences and Secrecy: The Hidden Agenda of Cartography in Early Modern 
Europe
Author(s): J. B. Harley
Source: Imago Mundi,
Vol. 40 (1988), pp. 57-76
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1151014

Full text:  
<http://www.history-takes-place.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/brunnlechner_gerda_harley_silences_secrecy_im40_1988.pdf>

         Joel Kovarsky

Silences and Secrecy: The Hidden Agenda of Cartography in Early Modern 
Europe



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Joel Kovarsky
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