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Revision as of 10:58, 26 March 2008
"The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as picture." - Heidegger, "The Age of the World Picture"
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John Harrison's 1714 H1 Marine Chronometer
Historical Context
Sundials - The original Real-Time Display
Ptolemy - Projecting the Grid
The Shape of the Earth - Towards a more precise map
Longitude and the World-Picture
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Henricus Hondius' 1633 World Map. Note the distortion of the Mediterranean Sea and the necessity of two seperate hemispheres.
Greenwich and the Longitude Prize
Timekeeping, Synchronicity, and Nodal Representation
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A Moscow Subway Map:Knowledge of the transportation system makes the city's geographic distribution less important than the internal logic of nodal distribution.
Legacies of the flat representation of Curvilinear Space
