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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Rivers & Mountains Of The World – Various Tchotchkes
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It is a pleasure to see these old Victorian infographic maps as teaching aids on water bottles and other tchotchkes, I have always been fascinated by them and their place in geologic, geographic, cartographic history…
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“Nowadays, detailed maps of any corner of the Earth are available for everyone. Detailed information about any geographical object on our planet can be got in just a few seconds. But two centuries ago, life was radically different. That’s why comparative infographic maps were viral in the 19th century, which allowed people to get information about the main geographical objects of our planet.”

image - water bottle - Rivers & Mountains of the World infographic / map
image - Rivers & Mountains of the World infographic / map - Victorian, 1847
image - Rivers & Mountains of the World infographic / map - Victorian - another example
image - Rivers & Mountains of the World infographic / map - Victorian, 1847 - zoom of portion
Nov 20, 2023, 06:57 PM·Public·Web
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