The issue of finding the fastest way to someone’s heart is one that has been asked for hundreds of years time and time again. It should therefore not be a surprise that at different points in history the field of cartography also tried to answer this age -old main scale.
This Valentine’s Day comes in the midst of the dystopian unfolding of the expansionist geopolitical activities of Donald Trump executive order To rename the Gulf of Mexico, Suggestions to use military violence to grab control of Greenland and the Panama Canaland one Threat to use economic pressure to annex Canada And “Own” Gaza -But because of maintaining our own common sense, we are free from the current cartographic chaos to re -view the fascinating history of heart maps and the lasting search of humanity to map those distant countries that become love and emotional intimacy named.
Although allegorical maps have a long history that goes back to millennia, those who focus on the hills and valleys of love and marriage may have been reduced to the seventeenth-century “Carte de Tentre” (1654). Covered By the French author Madeleine de Scudéry as a social game before it was later recorded in her novel “Clélie, Roman History” (1654) as an engraving by artist François Chaveau, gives the card an overview of an imaginary country consisting of geographical characteristics Based on geographical characteristics based on geographical characteristics based on geographical characteristics based on geographical characteristics based on geographical characteristics based on geographical characteristics of love.
The route to Tendre (“Love”) starts in the south in the city of Nouvelle Amitié (“New Friendship”) and follows a path to the north along three different rivers with the name recognition, regard and slope that is called Billet Doux (“Love Letter”), Sincérité (“Sincerity”) and Grand Coeur (“Big Heart”). But travelers watch out – deviating from the path can lead to unknown obstacles such as the EIA Dangeruse (“Dangerous Sea”) or unknown countries (“Terres Inconnues”), and a wrong turn can lead to unintended destinations such as the Lac d’iniference ( Lake (lake of indifference).
Many variations of this allegorical love card that followed were the tendency to concentrate on the marriage and stages of dating. One of the earliest of these surveys is Thomas Sayer’s “A Map of Chart of Love, and Harbor of Marriage” (1748), with places such as the Coast of Ambition, Cuckold’s Point, Rocks of Jaloussy, Whirlpool or Atultery, Cape Content, and the countries of desire and promise.
In another case, a map from 1772 by English poet and essayist Anna Letitia Barbaululd who served as an illustrative companion for a poem dedicated to her new husband, mapped the dangers of marriage and dating. Despite the fact that it is imaginary, it is the recording of sites that illustrate racist and sexist social attitudes, proves that metaphorical maps can still share the pitfalls of cartographic history.
Nineteenth-century heart maps also visualized gender perceptions, such as the satirical cartographic illustrations from the 1830s by the Kellogg Brothers or Hartford, Connecticut who mapped the hearts of men and women. These cards, as Salem State University History Professor Donna Seger indicated in her blog Streets of Salemseem to point back to the famous sixteenth-century world map by astronomer and mathematical Oronce Fine who took on a heart shape.
There are also examples of heart -shaped maps that map countries of love and sentiment in the 20th century. Massachusetts -illustrator Ernest Dudley Chase, who designed greeting cards and pictorial maps, created a study into “Loveland” (1943), which is described as “a place where everyone should go; where romance thrives and friendships grow more expensive. With the 1940s-like cartoons that illustrate places as a carefree cave, peaceful pond, enthusiasts jumped and sublimity bridge.
