28 July 2005

"How to Read an Early Modern Map: Between the Particular and the General, the Material and the Abstract, Words and Mathematics" - Jess Edwards : http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/09-1/edwamaps.html

Interesting map/related historical resources : http://www.she-philosopher.com/gallery.html#i_MapsMisc

A new international e-journal on sciences and technologies affined to history of cartography and maps : http://www.maplibrary.gr/e_Perimetron.htm

Famous Curves Index : http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html

A breakthrough U.S. patent for "ethical artificialintelligence" has recently been issued : http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=3979

"As visual orientation returns to prominence within society through film, television, and cyberspace, the status of women increases, soon to return to the equilibrium of the earliest human cultures." - Leonard Shlain (The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image)
"Show the way the future was." - Fred Pohl
"It's like once you're truly prepared to carry on for as long as it takes, you'll quickly find, as all movers and shakers have before you, that it doesn't take long at all. Surrender to the path, and go." - The Universe

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