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2 unusual facts about John Brian Harley


John Harley

John Brian Harley (1932–1991), geographer, cartographer, and map historian

Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2

Mapmaking is a cultural expression evidenced in different forms in any human community over time and space: From fourth century BC (400 BC) China to nineteenth century Europe, maps have been a medium that materialized or translated man's relationship to the world around it; as Harley puts it “There are few aspects of human action and thought that have not been mapped at one time or another” (Harley, 1991).



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