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Field Notes
Dense hachures turn the walls of Yosemite Valley into a remarkably tactile landscape. The sheet draws on a topographical plat prepared under the Wheeler survey and names the…
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This nineteenth-century Japanese atlas looks backward to China’s Three Kingdoms era. Rather than recording the political world of its own publication date, it maps an earlier division of…
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Sixty manuscript sheets radiate outward from the North Pole in Urbano Monte’s ambitious world map. This digital composite brings the separate sheets together with the diagrams and legends…
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Instead of looking down on a landscape, this sheet looks across its height. Humboldt and Bonpland’s observations become an elevation profile in which plant names and geological information…
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The long title makes this map’s working methods unusually visible. Sketches made in 1804 were revised using triangulation, astronomical observations, and barometric measurements, with several contributors named. Cities,…
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Published with the investigation of the 1906 California earthquake, this map places San Francisco’s streets over ten geological units and identifies the original shoreline. Contours and spot heights…
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Woodbridge’s chart organizes the world around temperature rather than political borders. Dotted isothermal lines connect places with equal average warmth, and color separates climatic regions associated with different…
