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Title: Maps Are Territories: Science Is an Atlas: A Portfolio of Exhibits by David Turnbull ISBN: 0-226-81705-9 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: January, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: all over the map
Comment: This book is all over the map, but what exactly does that mean?

Turnbull begins with a quote, "...all theory may be regarded as a kind of map extended over space and time." (Michael Polanyi) How tempting to describe difficult concepts as "like a map." By page two we're dealing with Borges, and a page later Lewis Carroll. Maps are more complex than we ever imagined.

The discussion of Aboriginal-Australian Maps (Exhibit 5) takes us deeper still, as we learn that their dream time and painting contain elements of geographical knowledge which these people equate with magic.

Originally published in 1989, it remains way ahead of its time. Multicultural, lacking any cant, beautifully illustrated, intellectually exciting

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