Abstract
THE value of block diagrams in geographical and geological instruction cannot be questioned, but many teachers find these difficult to draw, especially on the blackboard, at short notice. Prof. Lobeck has written a volume that should prove most helpful and deserves to be widely known. By the help of several hundred diagrams and sketch maps, he explains the value of perspective and the construction of diagrams from maps and illustrations. Examples of various land forms are given, and it would be a dull teacher who fails to gain something advantageous from a study of the pages. Later chapters deal with isometric diagrams, sketching from photographs, and crystal drawing. Each step in the development of the art has a number of instructive practice exercises.
Block Diagrams and other Graphic Methods used in Geology and Geography.
Prof.
A. K.
Lobeck
By. Pp. xi + 206. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1924.) 22s. 6d. net.
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Block Diagrams and other Graphic Methods used in Geology and Geography . Nature 116, 605 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116605d0
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