This “dazzling, beautifully written” (Martin Gardner) survey places recent scientific research in the centuries-long tradition of cartography, and argues that new technologies of measurement, coupled with modern computer graphics capabilities, has allowed modern scientists to create maps of “fantastic” new physical domains. The creation of these new geographies (chromosome maps, fate maps, galaxy maps) is described in the context of power and dominion, and “fundamentally expands our notion of ‘mapping’” (David Woodward, general editor, History of Cartography).

“Simply a great book.” – William H. Goetzmann, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, University of Texas