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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish it
Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor revealed the unseen and ...
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A Spy, a Map, and the Quest for Power in 16th-Century Europe
In 1502, as Europeans hungrily looked to the vast new continent across the Atlantic Ocean ... The first map to include the Equator, tropics, and the Arctic Circle, the “Cantino Planisphere ...