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Subject:	Re: "Here be the Dragons" and modern mapping
From:	"R. Todd Minsk" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc.
Date:	Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:56:52 +0000
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Eighth paragraph: "Explorers have long filled in our understanding of the world, using and then discarding the sexton, the compass, MapQuest."

This should be "sextant".  A sexton is a maintenance person in a church.

Todd Minsk
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Hanover, NH  USA
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From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Joel Kovarsky [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 9:39
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Subject: "Here be the Dragons" and modern mapping

This is a nice essay:
<http://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2017/01/here-be-dragons>. John
Hessler from the LC Geography & Map Division is one of the people
interviewed for the piece.

       Joel Kovarsky

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