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"FYI: The University of Chicago Press has made available online — at no
cost –five volumes of The History of Cartography. Or what Edward
Rothstein, of The New York Times, called “the most ambitious overview of map
making ever undertaken.” He continues:
People come to know the world the way they come to map it—through their
perceptions of how its elements are connected and of how they should
move among them. This is precisely what the series is attempting by
situating the map at the heart of cultural life and revealing its
relationship to society, science, and religion…. It is trying to
define a new set of relationships between maps and the physical world
that involve more than geometric correspondence. It is in essence a new
map of human attempts to chart the world."
Via Christoph S.
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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