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Re: "Here be the Dragons" and modern mapping
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"Bertuca, David" <[log in to unmask]>
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This article also was in the Guardian,  but it was edited. It may be more readable there.



I hope that an English editor knows what a sextant is.



David J. Bertuca







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From: "R. Todd Minsk" <[log in to unmask]>

Date: 2/10/17 5:10 PM (GMT-05:00)

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Subject: Re: "Here be the Dragons" and modern mapping



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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