The regular readers of Strange Maps and Time to Eat the Dogs, and if you are not already you should be, and those who enjoy my occasional posts on cartography or related subjects should all take a trip to London in the next couple of months. The British Library has an exhibition on the history of cartography, Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art. I’ll be paying a visit.
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If your philosophy of [scientific] history claims that the sequence should have been A→B→C, and it is C→A→B, then your philosophy of history is wrong. You have to take the data of history seriously.
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