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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps
Battlefield Earth
A new book shows that mapmaking, from today’s Google Earth and GPS navigation to Ptolemy in the second century, has always been a quarrelsome science.
Kevin Canfield
Published
Nov. 30 2013
5:45AM EST
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Kevin Canfield
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