From false starts to firm beginnings
Early colour printing of geological maps
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11938560 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Severud Cook (a Map Specialist, Map Library , The British Library, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 155-172 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Imago Mundi (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5694 • E-ISSN: 1479-7801 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03085699508592818 |
| OpenAlex | W1991022273 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 10 |
Geological information was first printed in colour on a map in 1820 but serious efforts to print geological maps in multiple colours began in Europe only in the 1840s. Increased geological mapping activity created the need to print more maps by cheaper methods, while general advances in lithographic colour printing provided the means. Better colour registration, transparency, range, permanence and distinctiveness were attained in the 1840s and 1850s by technical innovations and also by new design strategies. Consequently, as printed colour replaced hand colour as the norm, it also influenced the look of the geological map
Art · Cartography · Engineering drawing · Geography · Geologic map · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Transparency (behavior · Visual arts · Computer Science · Engineering · History · History of Science and Medicine · History of Science and Natural History · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction · Psychology
Continental imports to Britain, 1695–1740
Scientific and medical books, 1780–1830
Mining the archive
The Stationers’ Company and the almanack trade
Scholarly editing
The technologies of printing
The Longmans and the book trade, c .1730–1830
A fragment-based approach for computing the long-term visual evolution of historical maps
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
Like birds of a feather
Representing Novelty
John Baptist Jackson
Mechanization and the Area Symbol / Cartographic Techniques in 19th Century Geographical Journals
The nineteenth‐century colour revolution
The Earliest Printed Maps 1472-1500
The Emergence of a Visual Language for Geological Science 1760-1840
Early Thematic Mapping in the History of Cartography
| Citations per year | 0.39 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2024 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |