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Frontispiece. Remarks concerning stones said to have fallen from the clouds, both in these days and in antient times. 1796.

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September 30, 1935: The Hoover Dam was dedicated.

This map is impressive in photos, but the colors really pop in person!

Map: Eddy, Gerald A. Panoramic perspective of the area adjacent to Hoover Dam as it will appear when dam is completed.  Chicago, Ill.: Union Pacific System, c1931.

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Fig. 16. From a drawing of a hill with contour lines added to a contour map. Popular map reading, 1928 (via nemfrog)

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Mattaeus Seutter, Vienna Metropolis, c. 1730 +

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Desire Lines turns a walk in the park into an exercise in memory, a way to traverse sentiment. It encourages us, just as de Scudéry did in 1654, to make emotion into a physical journey, to see the way a space becomes ours—our own Cartes de tendre. (via theparisreview)

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Prevailing winds. The chemistry of creation : being a sketch of the chemical phenomena of the earth, the air, the ocean. 1850. (via nemfrog)

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Here are maps of Mars and Venus from Aleriel or A Voyage to Other Worlds by Wladyslaw Somerville Lach-Szyrma, 1883. (via danskjavlarna)

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Fig. 3. Simpson’s Alphabet Analogy - illustrating the creative force of natural selection. From fish to philosopher. 1959. (via nemfrog)

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