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Founded in 1818, the Harvard Map Collection holds over 500k antiquarian & modern maps, and provides gis data and support. Check out our instagram: harvardmaps
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From the polar antipodes to the equator, 2 maps by van Ewyk, using isogonic lines to display the variation of the compass, "or the marvelous concatenated accord of regulated & never-ending movements of the living magnetic power; as we found them in 1750."

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From Ptolemy's 2nd c. to Beatus' 8th c. (here in a 1929 facsimile by Konrad Miller). The tripartite world is encircled with water; East, where Paradise lay, is at the top of the the Red Sea unmistakable in the South. A spatial-temporal worldview

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Check out the exhibition, esp the great "Same Data, Different Stories." They asked cartographers to make 2 conflicting from the same data set. Maggie Owens of shows hazardous sites as raw # and then normalized by population. https://t.co/Uztjq4z4i5

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Here, a 1933 for Boyd's work in Greenland. Learn more at 's interactive map of Boyd's 1931 expedition, https://t.co/McLexoauOj

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Mapire wraps up a week of digital resources, combining incredible georeferenced surveys of with overlaid on digital elevation data. looking north from 2nd military survey of Habsburg Empire (Franziszeische Landesaufnahme, 1806-1869) https://t.co/2A0d6lN4fc

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A day late for but I'm excited to do some printing in outer space! From Samuel M'Cullough's 1840, 8 sheet of the visible heavens.

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For and here's a of the ocean around It was published in 1898 to show "John Murray's proposed scheme for Antarctic exploration."

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