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ALL who are interested in cartography and its history will welcome the issue of a second edition of Sir George Fordham's little book, which forms such an admirable introduction to the subject. It begins with a few pages on the elementary notions which lie behind the making and using of maps, and then we have an interesting page or two on terminology. How many people who commonly make use of atlases know who first used the term ‘atlas,’ and what a curious, far-fetched term it is? And how many remember that the word ousted its rivals ‘theatrum’ and ‘speculum’?
Maps, their History, Characteristics and Uses: a Handbook for Teachers.
By Sir Herbert George Fordham. Second edition. Pp. xii + 83 + 8 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1927.) 6s. net.
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Maps, their History, Characteristics and Uses: a Handbook for Teachers . Nature 121, 901 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121901b0
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