Ned M Campbell

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The fit becomes more precise the more the landscape is investigated. The first maps of newly discovered territories are usually crude sketches of a coastline, with lots of blank spaces and perhaps a few sea monsters or dragons occupying them. As exploration proceeds, the map’s features become more specific and the beasts tend to disappear. In time, there’ll be multiple maps of the same territory prepared for different purposes, whether to show roads, towns, rivers, mountains, resources,
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
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