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Re: twisted map followup
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Mon, 10 Jun 2002 02:19:00 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Here's a quick follow-up to the matter of Arno Peters as a shameless
> self-promoter and his map as not novel. Here's an article that's
> rather well-written and goes over the general points (including
> why the Peters/Gall maps aren't really that useful):
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> http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa030201a.htm
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> In a way, it does support Peters in showing that the map--in this
> case Peters's--is highly political. He pretends it's the hottest
> thing since sliced bread, hoping that fact will follow assertion
> if he repeats it often enough. I sympathize with his ostensible
> goal, but again, shameless self-promotion seems to be the *real* one.
Your political bias is showing!
The article shows that Peter's "ostensible goal" was to advance a political
agenda at the expense of science. It's always that way, isn't it?
For those who want a general introduction to cartography, technical or
historical, try Alfred Noble's _The Mapmakers_. There is also a chapter on
map projections in Morris Kline's _History of Mathematics in Western
Civilization_. These books have their omissions but if anyone else is
trying to address this subject for a general audience I'm not presently
aware of their book.
-Erik
P.S. If anyone needed a reminder that cartography can be exciting, there was
last year's coining of the term "real time cartography" by the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority mapmaker for Manhattan.
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| Oops.. Alfred is not the author: For those who want a general introduction to cartography, technical or historical, try John Noble Wilford's _The Mapmakers_. (Wilford is science editor at the New York Times) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Here's a quick follow-up to the matter of Arno Peters as a shameless self-promoter and his map as not novel. Here's an article that's rather well-written and goes over the general points (including why the Peters/Gall maps aren't really that (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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