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  2. John Thomson (cartographer) - Wikipedia

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    John Thomson (c. 1777 – c. 1840) [1] was a Scottish cartographer from Edinburgh, celebrated for his 1817 New General Atlas, published by himself in Edinburgh, John Cumming in Dublin, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy in London.

  3. Gilbert Ryle - Wikipedia

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    Ryle analogizes philosophy to cartography. Competent speakers of a language, Ryle believes, are to a philosopher what ordinary villagers are to a mapmaker: the ordinary villager has a competent grasp of his village, and is familiar with its inhabitants and geography. But when asked to interpret a map of that knowledge, the villager will have ...

  4. Jodocus Hondius - Wikipedia

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    Jodocus Hondius (Latinized version of his Dutch name: Joost de Hondt) (17 October 1563 – 12 February 1612) was a Flemish and Dutch engraver and cartographer.He is sometimes called Jodocus Hondius the Elder to distinguish him from his son Jodocus Hondius II.

  5. The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain

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    The villagers, aided and abetted by Morgan the Goat, so-called because of the many children he has fathered in the village, and their fiery spiritual leader Reverend Robert Jones, grasp its symbolism in restoring the community's war-damaged self-esteem, and conspire to delay the cartographers' departure so that the measurement can be done again.

  6. Cartogram - Wikipedia

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    Several examples of block cartograms were published during the 2016 U.S. presidential election season by The Washington Post, [28] the FiveThirtyEight blog, [29] and the Wall Street Journal, [30] among others. This is a cartogram for the 2024 and 2028 elections, based on the 2020 Census apportionment:

  7. Richard Edes Harrison - Wikipedia

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    Richard Edes Harrison (March 11, 1901 – January 5, 1994) was an American scientific illustrator and cartographer. He was the house cartographer of Fortune and a consultant at Life for almost two decades.

  8. US government could seek over $1 billion from J&J for cancer ...

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    The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services may seek over $1 billion from Johnson & Johnson as reimbursement for federal health agencies' payments of medical costs for patients who allege that ...

  9. Martin Waldseemüller - Wikipedia

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    Martin Waldseemüller (c. 1470 – 16 March 1520) was a German cartographer and humanist scholar. Sometimes known by the Hellenized form of his name, Hylacomylus, his work was influential among contemporary cartographers.