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1688 Coronelli Terrestrial Globe
Coronelli, Vincenzo (1650-1718). 1688. (Terrestrial Globe 42 Inches in Diameter) Globo della Terra di tre piedi, e mezzo di diametro. Date estimated. Images provided by the State Library of New South Wales where the original printed globe gores reside. From the catalog record of the library: "1 globe on 26 sheets ; 24 globe gores each 27.5 x 64 x 9.5 x 64 cm. and 2 polar calottes 36 cm. diam. Relief shown pictorially. Title from 'The works printed by Father Coronelli' in Epitome Cosmografica... Read full article
David Rumsey Map Center: Inside One of the World's Biggest Map Collections
This video was commissioned by Google Earth to go with the 2019 launch of a large group of Rumsey Historic Maps placed in the new browser version (no download required) of Google Earth. You can see the Rumsey Historic Map layer in the Google Earth browser here. Read full article
Reading Historical Maps Digitally: How Spatial Technologies Can Enable Close, Distant and Dynamic Interpretations
David Rumsey gave the opening keynote lecture for the Digital Humanities 2011 Conference at Stanford University on June 19, 2011. Abstract of the talk: Maps are dense, complex information systems arranged spatially. While they share similarities with other visual artifacts, their uniqueness as spatially arranged visual information both allows for and demands special digital approaches to understand and reuse their content. Georeferencing, vectorization, virtual reality, image databases, and ... Read full article
Giving Maps a Second Life with Digital Technologies
This is a video of David Rumsey giving the opening keynote address to the Digital Library Federation Spring 2008 Forum in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 28, 2008. The talk is a substantially expanded version of the Second Life Launch Event talk. View the Digital Library Federation Program Listing Read full article
Second Life Launch Event Talk
A video presentation from the Rumsey Map Islands launch in Second Life on March 6, 2008. Read an article about the launch in MIT's Technology Review View Collection in Second Life Read full article
The Past and Future of Mapping
David Rumsey's opening talk at the first Where 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, June 29, 2005. An updated version of "Historical Maps Online" by David Rumsey appears on the O'Reilly Network in conjunction with the conference. Read a blog on the talk and the conference by Wade Roush in MIT's Technology Review Read full article
Mapping Time
A talk by David Rumsey for the Seminars in Long Term Thinking of The Long Now Foundation on May 14, 2004. Read Stewart Brand's talk summary. Read full article
Cassini Terrestrial Globe and GIS Layers
In this video the 1790 Cassini Terrestrial Globe is combined in ESRI's ArcGlobe with other GIS layers, including NASA's satellite image of the world at night, several satellite images of world topography and bathymetry, and other historical maps and globes. Read full article
Cassini Terrestrial and Celestial Globes 1790 video
Giovanni Maria Cassini made a Terrestrial Globe in 1790 and a Celestial Globe in 1792. This video shows both globes virtually recreated in Google Earth, with the Celestial Globe turned inside out and placed 64 million meters outside the Terrestrial Globe. The same space can be viewed live in Google Earth (requires download of app, turn off Atmosphere layer in Google Earth). Read full article