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159 - Squaring the Hexagon: France's Rectangular Départements
Squaring the circle is a proverbial way of describing something impossible. Jacques-Guillaume Thouret set himself an even more daunting task: squaring the hexagône – in French, that word is shorth… more →
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159 - Squaring the Hexagon: France's Rectangular Départements
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: Squaring the circle is a proverbial way of describing something impossible. Jacques-Guillaume Thour … more →
156 - China’s 1418 World Map
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: The Turks have Piri Reis, whose 1513 map shows parts of America and Antarctica with astonishing and … more →
110 - Cooch Behar: The Mother of All Enclave Complexes
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: A map that does justice to the strangeness of the Cooch Behar enclave complex risks either to be … more →
106 - The 'Bloodless Aroostook War' and Maine's Northern Border
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: “From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, to wit, that angle which is formed by a line drawn due … more →
59 – A German Map of the Empire of Love
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: In the 18th century, sentimental cartography was very much à la mode, with this map as one of the f … more →
13 - The retreat of Cornish
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strangemaps wrote 2 years ago: Cornwall is the southwesternmost county of England. As with other ‘extremities’ of the B … more →
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