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  • 500 years printing x (science + art) = cartography - The earliest map publications, produced around 1480, derived from the theories of Claudius Ptolemy, whose “Geographia Tabula”, in which more than 8,000 places were identified with their mathematical co-ordinates, provided the basis for the set of 27 maps of the ancient world ...
  • British County Maps - Between 1579 and 1850, over one hundred different maps of each county have been published ...