Note from the Editor: The following article incorporates the text of the first of the two keynote addresses initiating formal proceedings at the 2019 Conference on the History of Cartography. In view of its historiographical interest, the Editor invited Peter Barber, a former Head of Maps at the British Library and an authority on divers aspects of map history, to share his reflections with readers of this Journal. Although the spoken text has had to be abbreviated in places, some further, post-Conference, observations have been added.

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“语境就是一切……”：对 1970 年代以来制图学历史发展及其后果的反思

编者按：以下文章收录了在 2019 年制图史会议上启动正式会议的两个主题演讲中的第一个的文本。鉴于其对史学的兴趣，编辑邀请了大英图书馆前地图主管、地图历史多方面的权威彼得·巴伯 (Peter Barber) 与本期刊的读者分享他的感想。尽管口头文本在某些地方必须缩写，但在会后的一些进一步观察中已添加。