[HN Gopher] History of Cartography: Volumes One, Two, Three, Fou...
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History of Cartography: Volumes One, Two, Three, Four, and Six
(1987)
Author : Tomte
Score : 62 points
Date : 2023-09-04 13:04 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (press.uchicago.edu)
(TXT) w3m dump (press.uchicago.edu)
| sixstringtheory wrote:
| Annoying the way they've broken them up into different PDFs.
| Fascinating series though! There's gotta be close to 10,000
| pages.
| hinkley wrote:
| Wait a second...
| goosethe wrote:
| here's a zip of all the pdf's so we can give their servers a
| break:
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OxfkYR09dTtIBkVkRuB47oBH5fH...
| marsa wrote:
| oh great that's another 7 interesting books i'll download and
| never get to actually read
|
| jk thanks for posting this!
| NKosmatos wrote:
| I'm assuming their site is being hammered by HNers downloading
| the PDFs (myself included) since the download speed is only a
| few KB/s (unless they're smart and have implemented a rate
| limiter).
| dsXLII wrote:
| If you carefully review the other volumes, you'll find a series
| of clues that, when combined, yield a map that leads you to the
| lost volume 5. It just says "told you cartography was awesome"
| over and over for 400 pages.
| [deleted]
| Anon84 wrote:
| "I find your lack of five disturbing" - Darth Vader, probably
| [deleted]
| bewaretheirs wrote:
| In case anyone is wondering, volume five is "forthcoming":
|
| See: https://geography.wisc.edu/histcart/
|
| and: https://geography.wisc.edu/histcart/volume-5-cartography-
| in-...
|
| Only volume 1 came out in 1987; volume 2 was published in three
| books from 1992 to 1998; volume 3 came out in 2007, 6 in 2015, 4
| in 2019.
|
| academic publishing allows for out-of-order execution.
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