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   The Old Map Gallery (oldmapgallery@sciencemastodon.com)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 08:02:32 JST The Old Map Gallery

   In 1976, The New Yorker magazine published Saul Steinberg's famous cover meant to show the perspective on the world of the average person on 9th Ave in NYC. Its impact was immediate and still continues today, as it wasn't just a specific joke, but a lens by which you can portray the local perspective of anyone. In a paper publishing next month we look at Saul Steinberg's projection and how its a culmination of regionalism in geography.
   #maps #history #nyc #map #geography

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     Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 (nyrath@spacey.space)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 08:02:30 JST Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

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     • Henry Cobb

     @Hcobb

     https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/485:_Depth

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     Henry Cobb (hcobb@spacey.space)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 08:02:31 JST Henry Cobb

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     • Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

     @nyrath So it's like those log-scale maps of the universe?

     Church of Jeff repeated this.