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Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by ...

Is it possible to create the “perfect” expression of data on a map? William Rankin doesn’t think so. While most mainstream maps that use a jigsaw-puzzle-like format — solid color shapes separated by ...

Walter W. Ristow learned to drive by skidding his family's Model T across the frozen lakes of Wisconsin and later drove through every state in the Lower 48. No one can remember a single time he got ...

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