The Magnetic Compass and North Orientation
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Is the Magnetic Compass Responsible for the Common Practice of Orienting Maps to the North?
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The History of Cartography Series
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My opening remarks for the “Frontier Forum on Cartographic History & International Seminar on The History of Cartography Translation Project,” Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, held at Yunnan University (Chenggong Campus), 25 August 2019
Read MoreA major new study fails to consider maps in books
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The catalogue raisonée of 16th-century Italian commercial mapping perpetuates a singular failing among map historians
Read MoreEarly Colonial Property Mapping in Poetry
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The Difficulties of Property Surveying in Colonial Massachusetts Bay
Read MoreCartography: The Interview (New Books Network)
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Listen to the podcast of the interview with Steven Seegel.
Read MoreOf Measures and Tyranny
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Is the Metric System (International System of Units) really an agent of tyranny and state oppression, while the U.S. system of weights and measures is a beacon of liberty?
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The History of Cartography in a Brief Poem
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By Karl Peucker, a prominent German cartographer, 1902
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