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  • Cartography "Antipodes and Perioeci" by Hezekiah Butterworth in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (February 1873) "Selecting a First Meridian" by E. Cortambert...
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  • 98557Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) — Guillaume DelisleOtto Hartig Reformer of cartography, born 28 February, 1675, in Paris; died there 25 January, 1726. His father...
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  • his studies led mainly in the direction of the practice and history of cartography. He compiled many original maps and atlases, bringing a fine critical...
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  • countries and oceans, mountains and lakes, as well as in the choice of cartographic proportions. He reduced the awkward size to one which was convenient...
    4 KB (678 words) - 17:17, 6 October 2013
  • of the Discovery of America’ (1861); and several essays on American cartography. Other works are ‘Travels in the Interior of Russia and Poland’ (1841);...
    877 bytes (111 words) - 13:55, 25 September 2021
  • Collection for the History of Russia, appeared at Saint Petersburg, in nine volumes (1732-65). His work in geography and cartography was also important....
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  • Ethnographische Parallelen und Vorgleiche (Stuttgart, 1878). He also took up cartography, having a chief share in the production of the Physikalisch-statistische...
    406 bytes (202 words) - 20:31, 28 June 2012
  • and the green mountains rise as in a picture. The father of Japanese cartography was Inō Chōkei (born A. D. 1744), of whose life and labours Dr. Knott...
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  • Each map is 9½ inches by 6¾ inches. The wonderful delicacy of Norden's work makes these maps peculiarly appreciated by students of London cartography....
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  • was born at Edinburgh on the 25th of December 1831. His father had a cartographical establishment there and he was educated in the work. He was subsequently...
    452 bytes (186 words) - 13:07, 27 March 2015
  • 4140485Q105682239Frederick Puller SprentFrederick PullerSprentBritish historian of cartography and map curator; assistant keeper and superintendent of the British Museum's...
    600 bytes (211 words) - 15:28, 7 February 2023
  • Scandinavian Peninsula. Far more important, however, for the history of cartography is the second map and description of North-Western Europe and Greenland...
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  • the White Cross Society. He became a high authority on early American cartography and the history of the period of exploration. He died in New York city...
    402 bytes (283 words) - 17:20, 12 April 2020
  • (Commons file) Nikolas M. Rajkovic, "The European Union and critical legal cartography: Old geopolitics, worn geopoetry and the return of geopower" (Commons...
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  • (Commons file) Nikolas M. Rajkovic, "The European Union and critical legal cartography: Old geopolitics, worn geopoetry and the return of geopower" (Commons...
    5 KB (301 words) - 18:54, 10 June 2023
  • TO FREMONT, 1804-1845, by Carl I. Wheat. The Institute of Historical Cartography, San Francisco, 1957 and 1958. Foreword. Bibliocartography. Index of...
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  • 1705 arrived in China. Fridelli was an important contributor to the cartographical survey of the Chinese empire, begun in 1708 and completed in 1718 (according...
    1 KB (224 words) - 15:56, 10 May 2013
  • architectural draftsmen, structural steelwork draftsmen, electrical draftsmen, cartographic draftsmen, and ordnance draftsmen, including assistant or lower class...
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  • draughtsman’s office in his father’s firm, receiving instruction in cartography from his father and from E. G. Ravenstein. In 1889, on the removal of...
    337 bytes (688 words) - 19:43, 12 March 2023
  • which assures him for all time a place of honour in the history of cartography, we find not only his own map of Asia on a smaller scale, but also a...
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