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Cartography
Cartography is the science of map-making.
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The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.
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― The Stone Raft
― The Stone Raft
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Every history is a map: it leaves out some features of reality, and singles out others which are thought to display its essential structure. When a historical map is drawn, as ours is, from specific groups outward, it has a special character. The process of mapping becomes the surveyor's process of triangulation, and the reference points are important less in themselves than as marks for triangulation-that is, as points from which to take a bearing. This is the principle which has guided us when
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