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The Earth Skeleton, Primal Pansperma & the Gigantic California
JF Ptak Science Books Post 1933 [Detail of E.W. Happel's map in his Relationes Curiosae (1675), plates 23 in the Peabody Library's The World Encompassed, 1952.]] I’m not sure how my thinking went from...
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Daily Dose from Dr. Odd: Apple Maps of Eating, from the Little to the BIG Eat
JF Ptak Science Books Daily Dose from Dr. Odd I've made a post here before on the location of the Garden of Eating, um, "Eden", here, which I guess might be the ultimate of all Apple Maps, The Big Eat;...
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Visual Chronology of Cosmologies and Astronomical Maps, I+II
JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post I'm gearing up for Part III of this 150-item list (we're up to 81 maps thus far) and thought to at least put the two parts of what has been done on the same page:...
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Extending Manhattan: Filling in the East River & Part of NYC Harbor
JF Ptak Science Books Extending Post 1470 A while ago I wrote a post on Herman Soergel's plan for extending the landmass of the countries around the Mediterranean Sea by damming the straits of...
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The Moral Map of the United States, 1854 (and other Maps of Slavery)
JF Ptak Science Books Post 1940 This incredible, indelible image is another from our collection of graphical representations of data and ideas. This map, is entitled Moral Map of North America, 1854;...
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Cartographic Evidence of Hell in Texas, 1888
JF Ptak Science Books Post 1941 Just yesterday in this blog I made an entry on a very striking, viciously anti-slavery Moral Map of the U.S. It is very red and was printed in 1854, just barely before...
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A Stunningly Detailed Bird’s-Eye View of NYC, 1879
JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post This remarkable map, a bird's-eye perspective view of New York City, was created by Will L. Taylor ("chief draftsman"), and published by Galt & Hoy of New York in...
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The Black Sun and Red Earth, 1862
JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post These compelling images belong to Astronomie Populaire ou Description des Corps Célestes, Avec Atlas en Tableaux Transparents, à l'usage des Gens du Monde, which was...
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Maps of Extreme Beauty and Detail, 1555
JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post These fabulous maps appear in the cartographer/privateer/navigator/explorer Guillaume Testu (1509-1572) Cosmographie universelle, selon les navigateurs tant anciens que...
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Model of Utah Beach, Normandy, France, 1944
JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post In all that I have seen relating to the mammoth planning and logistical operations concerning teh invasion of Europe by the Allied Forces on 6 June 1944 I don't think...
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