cartography
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In 1822, F. & R. Lockwood, a small cartography firm in New York, published what historians today believe was the first of its kind: a board game invented and marketed in America.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026
It requires a passion for cities, urban history and, perhaps, cartography; an affinity for architecture and urban design; a love of community; and a knack for numbers.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2024
The Seattle-based cartography company turns 50 this year, providing proof as clear as the compass rose that the hard-copy map is not going the way of the phone book.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2023
Redrawing the map would require much more than fresh cartography.
From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2023
And, naturally, the crucial topics for the new science corresponded neatly with the professional preoccupations of seventeenth-century mathematicians: astronomy/astrology, navigation, cartography, surveying, architecture, ballistics and hydraulics.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing cartography
Write On!: Graph and Gram
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