Lecture by Mitya Frumin

🔔 “Cartographic Frameworks of the Holy Land: What a Coordinate Grid Can Tell Us” — a lecture by Dr. Mitya Frumin.

From Claudius Ptolemy’s “Fourth Map of Asia” to maps of the Holy Land and Eretz Israel, our region is one of the most frequently mapped areas of the Earth’s land surface. This provides an excellent opportunity to observe the development of geography as a science and trace the evolution of cartographic techniques and methods.

This lecture will focus on something that usually receives insufficient attention because it is located at the margins of maps: their coordinate grids.

Using three historical maps from different periods, we will discuss three different coordinate systems, each reflecting its own philosophy of space and of the relationship between humans and nature.

Together with the audience, we will try to answer the question: did cartographers manage to “measure harmony with algebra,” or did these attempts merely emphasize the limits of human capabilities?

The lecture is connected to the recently concluded exhibition “Fact, Faith and Fantasy: Maps of the Holy Land from the Chinn Collection” at the Israel Museum, where two of the three maps discussed in the lecture were displayed.

📅 Friday, October 2
🕙 10:00
🎫 ₪55
🔔 Tickets: anumuseum.org.il/ru/events/mitya-frumin/
📱 Ticket orders and additional information: 03-5008080

After the lecture, there will be a tour of the main exhibition.

Mitya Frumin is a historical geographer, researcher, and licensed guide. He began his academic career studying oceanography at Saint Petersburg State University, then shifted to history and historical geography. At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he completed two doctoral dissertations—in atmospheric sciences and historical geography. He is the author of studies on the history of cartography and the geography of the Levant, and a lecturer at Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College in Jerusalem.