5/26/2023 0 Comments Acta cartographica![]() ![]() Nonetheless, this is clearly an early incarnation of a pro-Australian reorientation of the world map!Ĭollingridge, George. The projection, which seems to emphasize that central axis, looks to be a Van der Grinten I, introduced in 1898 (Snyder and Voxland 1989, 200) or perhaps the IV, introduced in 1904 (idem, 205).Ĭollingridge did not go the whole hog and put south at the top, as Australian-made maps have often come to do, but he did align the map with Australia on its central meridian. ![]() Its most remarkable feature was the wonderful title design and the use of the ornate initial from the Rheims manuscript of Pomponius Mela (1417): In the first six months there appeared his essay on “When the Earth Was Flat,” a quite generic (for the period) review of medieval mappaemundi depicting the world as flat. He’s nowadays a bit of a cult figure, it seems, and was briefly the motive for the George Collingridge Society, active 2003–4.Ĭollingridge was apparently a frequent contributor to The Lone Hand, a monthly journal that began publishing in 1907. Collingridge was a proponent of the Portuguese discovery of Australia prior to the Dutch (1606), an argument that was very much contra Australia’s emergent nationalist historiography. ![]() I just got sucked down a rabbit hole and ended up finding a fun map.Īnyway, I decided to explore more about one George Collingridge, Anglo-French artist and scholar, who had emigrated to Australia in 1879 and who in 1895 published a tome on the Discovery of Australia. Update 28 June 2021: I’ve moved the front material re Collingridge’s arguments re Java and Jave-le-gtande to a new post ![]()
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