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Subject: Re: If there was a god of mapping...
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:36:12 -0800
From: Mark Walker <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
St. Jerome - the "know it all"
http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/saint.aspx?id=1154
On Jan 17, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society
Library, UW Milwaukee wrote:
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> Subject: Re: If there was a god of mapping...
> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:12:13 -0800
> From: Carlos Diaz <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Here is a list of patron saints that I found online:
> http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/patrons.aspx
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> / | ' \ "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of
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> ( ) 0 the few or the one."
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> Carlos A. Diaz
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> Government Publications, Maps, and Microforms
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> James E. Brooks Library
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> Central Washington University
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> Mailstop 7548
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> Ellensburg, WA 98926
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> http://www.lib.cwu.edu/government-publications/
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> Carlos' phone: (509) 963-1545
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> >>> "Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee"
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> Subject: RE: If there was a god of mapping...
> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:05:13 -0500
> From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
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> Often these things are 'repurposing' of older attributes. And I am not
> up on my non-Christian pantheons (I used to know a lot of the
> Greek/Roman and Norse ones, but honey child, there are so many others
> that demand equal time that I don't worry about them any longer).
> Patron saints are another thing, though. St Nicholas (aka, Saint
> Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, aka Santa Claus) is the patron saint of
> mariners. It seems to me that part of that purview would include charts
> and maps.
>
> Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
> Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726
> Miami University Libraries
> Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
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> Subject: If there was a god of mapping...
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> Subject: If there was a god of mapping...
> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:57:01 -0500
> From: susan a hawkins <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hello MAPS-Listers!
>
> I have a question for you all (two, actually). This is for a personal
> collage project of mine. I am also posting this to the Facebook bunch,
> as there is not complete overlap there.
>
> Are there gods or patron saints of mapping and aerial photography? If
> so, who are they? What mythic tradition do/would they come from?
>
> If not, what attributes would they have? I can think of the obvious
> ones, but I'd really appreciate some suggestions.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> ---sue h
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