John W Hessler Author

John W. Hessler is Senior Cartographic Reference Specialist in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of 'The Naming of America: Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 World Map and the Cosmographiae Introduction' (2008),' Thoreau on Cape Cod: His Journeys and the Lost Maps' (2011), and 'Seeing the World Anew: The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 and 1516 World Maps' (2012). Hessler has been awarded many grants and fellowships including a John S. Best Research Fellowship from the American Geographical Society, and a Kluge Fellowship by the Library of Congress in 2011. He is currently working on his forthcoming book, 'Cartography in the Age of Computer Simulation: Lectures on the Mathematical and Topological Foundations of GIS'.