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Frontispiece of the 1595 Atlas of Mercator. An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a continent or region of Earth.. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today, many atlases are in multimedia formats.
In order to be able to manufacture physical representations of the NCS color space (such as color atlases), a reduced set of colors had to be selected that would illustrate the system well. Originally developed in 1979 as part of becoming the Swedish national color standard by the SIS (Swedish Standards Institute), the Natural Color System was ...
The use of red as a symbol is referenced in the British Labour Party's anthem, The Red Flag. [91] In the heyday of the British Empire before 1960, maps, globes, and atlases typically used red or pink to designate the Empire or its Commonwealth; [92] the practice inspired the All-Red Route and the All Red Line.
Though often called rhumbs, they are better called "windrose lines": As cartographic historian Leo Bagrow states, "…the word [loxodromic or rhumb chart] is wrongly applied to the sea-charts of this period, since a loxodrome gives an accurate course only when the chart is drawn on a suitable projection. Cartometric investigation has revealed ...
Mars has shone red in the night sky for as long as humans have gazed up at the cosmos, fascinating people from the ancient Romans to the present day. "The fundamental question of why Mars is red ...
Figures that are rightly called Atlantes may sometimes be described as herms. Atlantes express extreme effort in their function, heads bent forward to support the weight of the structure above them across their shoulders, forearms often lifted to provide additional support, providing an architectural motif.
With its iconic rusty hue, Mars has long been called the red planet. Now, scientists may have discovered the potential source of that distinctive coloring, overturning a popular theory in the process.
Atlas and the Hesperides by John Singer Sargent (1925).. The etymology of the name Atlas is uncertain. Virgil took pleasure in translating etymologies of Greek names by combining them with adjectives that explained them: for Atlas his adjective is durus, "hard, enduring", [9] which suggested to George Doig that Virgil was aware of the Greek τλῆναι "to endure"; Doig offers the further ...