In the News: Mark Monmonier
Monmonier featured in National Geographic on map-related inventions
Patents have generally been ignored by map historians, says Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor of Geography, but they reveal a lot about how people have used maps over the years. He found that like many discoveries and inventions, patents for similar ideas seemed to spring up independently around the same time—a phenomenon known as the theory of multiple discoveries.
Monmonier quoted in Smithsonian article on history of maps
“No map entirely tells the truth,” says Distinguished Professor of Geography Mark Monmonier. “There’s always some distortion, some point of view.”
Monmonier cited in Atlas Obscura article on map projection
"There are a large number of other map projections, many of which are better than either one of" the Mercator Projection and the Peters Projection, according to Distinguished Professor Emeritus Mark Monmonier.
Geography faculty to participate in recently funded research project on unmanned aerial systems
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