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Text is an immediately striking part of the map. It forms the border of the map, and crowds in the globe, particularly filling the northern hemisphere. The text performs a variety of roles, from describing what the map shows and its maker (in the…
Tags: European impressions, frame, IC, latin, limits of knowledge, Place Names, text, vernacular
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IsabellaC
Polar projection of the world
IsabellaC
This map, produced in 1944, shows major “tropical diseases” and where they occur in the world. A stylized image of the vector or symptoms of the disease is drawn over each afflicted region. Along the bottom of the map is a key describing which image…
Tags: artzybasheff, cholera, dengue, disease, fly, helminthic disease, IC, images, Japanese river fever, leishmaniasis, leprosy, magazine, malaria, mosquito, pests, plague, rat, relapsing fever, Rocky Mountain fever, sleeping sickness, text, tick, tularemia, typhus, world map, worm, yaws, yellow fever