The Cartography of Absence: Looking for the Missing Tools of Mapmaking. An unexpected question
Author(s): Michel Chevalier
Publication date: August 6, 2026
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Abstract
For historians of cartography, maps are everywhere. Libraries preserve them. Museums exhibit them. Scholars catalogue, compare and analyse them. Atlases and printed sheets have been studied with extraordinary precision. The history of cartography has naturally focused on visible products: maps themselves.
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