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Digital Image: 1841 Olney Polar Projection Map of the World
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Title
The World on a Globular Projection.
1841 (undated) 8.5 x 10.5 in (21.59 x 26.67 cm) 1 : 130000000
1841 (undated) 8.5 x 10.5 in (21.59 x 26.67 cm) 1 : 130000000
Description
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Cartographer
Jesse Olney (1798 - 1872) was an American geographer, primarily active and successful in the production of school textbooks on that subject. His sales were second only to thos of Webster's American Spelling Book. He was educated in Whitesboro, New York, and would work as a teacher both there and in Binghamton. From 1819 to 1831 he served as principal of the Stone School in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1828 he published A Geography and Atlas, which for thirty years would be the standard geographical text used throughout the United States. It was many times enlarged and revised, and ran through 98 editions. While prior geographies opened with a description of astronomy and the solar system - a convention harkening back to Ptolemy, and the discipline of cosmography - Olney chose instead to center his pedagogy on the student's home town, expanding instead from there. The intention was to guide the student in study of the Earth by moving from that which was near and familiar to what was distant and abstract. He would later expand his repertoire of textbooks to include readers, arithmetic books, and United States history. He would enter the Connecticut legislature, using his position to influence the development of that state's schools. A Unitarian, he would be also active in advocacy for the liberal religious movements in New England. More by this mapmaker...
Source
Olney, J., Olney's School Atlas, (Hartford: Pratt) 1841.
References
This state not in OCLC.