Does this sound familiar to anyone?
"In the 70s I read a book a poetry by one of the South American poets.
In this book (which I’ve not been able to locate since) he quoted a
paragraph taken from I know not what that might have been called
the Art of Cartography. It was written in prose form but had the
feeling of poetry. It was about a small (presumably European, perhaps
Medieval) town that had been dedicated to perfecting the art of
cartography.
They had gone so far in an effort to reach the ultimate levels of
accuracy and
scale that they had produced a map of their own locale that it literally
covered the entire town inch by inch."
I do remember Lewis Carroll's comment about
the only really useful maps having a scale
of 1:1, but the above doesn't ring a bell.
Mary
-- Mary Lynette Larsgaard Director, Map Library Assistant Head, Map and Imagery Laboratory Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106-9010 USA mary@library.ucsb.edu voice: 805/893-4049; 2779, reference desk fax: 805/893-8799
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