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Wednesday, January 07, 2009
The word is… Cartocacoethes
Cartocacoethes, the compulsion to see maps everywhere. This may seem like a rare and intriguing idiosyncrasy, but it turns out “the oldest map in the world”, an iconic image that just begs to be seen as a map, may not have been a map at all.
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