Cosmographia

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Feb 20, 2024 • M. E. Rothwell
Why I write Cosmographia
In 1569, Gerardus Mercator, by far the most accomplished cartographer in Europe, and creator of the map projection system still most commonly used…
Jan 2, 2025 • M. E. Rothwell
Why did humans first build cities?
Environmental circumscription
Apr 16, 2025 • M. E. Rothwell
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Photographs of the Old West
Feb 26, 2025 • M. E. Rothwell
Photographs of Old Russia
Jan 20, 2025 • M. E. Rothwell
Photographs of Old Japan
Apr 9, 2025 • M. E. Rothwell
Magic
Aug 5, 2024 • M. E. Rothwell
Photographs of Old Persia
May 9, 2025 • M. E. Rothwell
Cartography of Networks
Jul 29, 2024 • M. E. Rothwell
A Theory of Inequality
Our grip is slipping
May 5, 2025 • M. E. Rothwell
Great Thinkers on Fatherhood
Welcome to Cosmographia — histories of the earth and the stars.
Feb 8 • M. E. Rothwell
Columbus: Triumph and Ruin
The Second and Third Voyages
Feb 6 • M. E. Rothwell
Mercury
God, metal, and planet
Feb 4 • M. E. Rothwell
On artistic inheritance
Dare to create
Feb 1 • M. E. Rothwell
The Vikings of Greenland
They did not go gently
Jan 29 • M. E. Rothwell
Some really cool paintings of dinosaurs
The life and work of Charles R. Knight
Jan 27 • M. E. Rothwell
The Rupture
Welcome to Cosmographia — histories of the earth and the stars.
Jan 25 • M. E. Rothwell
How a prehistoric megaflood helped push humans to adopt agriculture
Yet another example of how geography made Man
Jan 21 • M. E. Rothwell
Cosmographia
Cosmographia
Histories of the earth and the stars.
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