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Late medieval gothic plate armour with list of elements. The slot in the helmet is called an occularium. This list identifies various pieces of body armour worn from the medieval to early modern period in the Western world, mostly plate but some mail armour, arranged by the part of body that is protected and roughly by date.
In the September 1994 edition of Dragon (Issue 209), Lester W. Smith found Campaign Cartographer almost too good, and the 334-page manual almost too much, saying "For those who like to invest multiple hours into creating detailed maps for their campaigns, and who have the hardware to take advantage of the program, the Campaign Cartographer software allows them to create, store, modify, and ...
During much of the latter 20th century, this was the primary goal of academic cartography, especially the Cartographic Communication school of thought: to determine how to make the most efficient maps as conduits of information. Clarity, the degree to which the map makes its purpose obvious and its information easy to access. Clarity can be ...
Celestial map by the cartographer Frederik de Wit, 17th century. Cartography or map-making is the study and practice of crafting representations of the Earth upon a flat surface [2] (see History of cartography), and one who makes maps is called a cartographer. Road maps are perhaps the most widely used maps today.
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Depiction of a 13th-century gambeson (Morgan Bible, fol. 10r)A gambeson (similar to the aketon, padded jack, pourpoint, or arming doublet) is a padded defensive jacket, worn as armour separately, or combined with mail or plate armour.
Matsuura TakeshirÅ (Japan, 1818–1888), explorer, cartographer, writer, painter, priest, and antiquarian. Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler (1842–1922), American producer of pictorial maps [13] Charles F. Hoffmann (Germany/United States, 1838–1913) James Gardner; Charles E. Goad (1848 – 1910), English Canadian cartographer and pioneer of ...