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This Is the Internet, Visualized as an 18th-Century Map - Digital Trends
To Martin Vargic, it’s neither: It’s an 18th-century-style map that looks like something out of the golden age of cartography, only depicting the world’s 3,000 most heavily trafficked ...
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What would an 18th-century map of the Internet look like?
How about an 18th-century-style map of the world? That’s how Martin Vargic sees it. Vargic, who has been creating maps since age 11, spent about 1,000 hours literally mapping out the Internet, ...
The Independent7y
This is how an 18th Century carpenter turned clockmaker changed maps ...
John Harrison: How an 18th Century clockmaker figured out where we were in the world. The Yorkshire carpenter became an unlikely hero of the quest to measure longitude ...
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'Unique' 18th Century map of St Peter Port sells for £10k
A "unique" map of St Peter Port from 1759 has been bought for £10,000 by Guernsey's archives from a Jersey collector. The proceeds will go to the military charity the Gurkha Welfare Trust. The ...
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'Unique' 18th Century map of St Peter Port sells for £10k
A "unique" map of St Peter Port from 1759 has been bought for £10,000 by Guernsey's archives from a Jersey collector. The proceeds will go to the military charity the Gurkha Welfare Trust. The ...