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Travel With the Maps That Changed the World

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A mammoth tusk, thousand year old rock carvings in the Italian countryside, Martin Waldseemüller's "American Birth Certificate," Google Maps—all represent leaps in the history of mapmaking, one of humankind's oldest (and most successful) endeavors to understand the world around us.

All of them—alongside countless others—are the focus of one of the...

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