A Cartographer's Tale

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Welcome to A Cartographer's Tale
This is the start of a journey to navigate the maps, the history, and the world we live in.
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24 hours
How the need to divide the day came about, why it is precisely 24 hours, and how people learnt to measure each of those hours.
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Unexpected curves: Drawing straight lines on a map
An introduction to geodesic lines. Not very intuitive, but much more useful than drawing simple straight lines on a map.
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The casualty count of the Battle of the Somme
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The United States of Europe: a peculiar history of European federalism
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Unexpected curves: Drawing straight lines on a map
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Trump, Google Maps and the names of places
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How did North get to the top?
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The rise of the jet set and Pan Am in-flight menus
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The United States of Europe: a peculiar history of European federalism
A journey through some of the most peculiar ideas for federating Europe in the 20th century, by Maas, Kohr and Heineken.
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Trump, Google Maps and the names of places
The interconnected story of toponymy, the willingness to conform of Google Maps and the intentions of Donald Trump.
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Baltic ice and its advantages
The origin of the Baltic Sea, its freezing patterns and how the winter ice affects the region's towns and people.
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The rise of the jet set and Pan Am in-flight menus
The jet age revolutionized air travel in the 1960s. Pan Am took it to the next level with Jacques Liozu’s illustrated menus featuring maps of global…
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The first regional maps and the first world map
A journey through some examples of the conceptualisation of the surrounding territory, which grow in extension until we reach the first world map of…
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The casualty count of the Battle of the Somme
A detailed account of the Battle of the Somme, highlighting the enormous human cost and its profound impact on the nations involved.
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The Pangaeas that were and the Pangaeas to come
Since the formation of the Earth, plate tectonics has shifted the continents to form multiple Pangeas. And many more will form in the future.
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