Visuals - Histories of Maps and Other Visual Books - Review - NYTimes.com - 29 views
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not just with topography but with typography too
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my favorite maps are those of unknown worlds
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For instance, the Chinese, who had long been reassured by their maps that they occupied the “middle kingdom,” were “extremely exasperated,” the authors write, “when they discovered . . . that they had been relegated to the right edge of a map prepared by the Jesuits.”
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