Arthur H. Robinson citations

Arthur H. Robinson est un cartographe et géographe américain né le 5 janvier 1915 à Montréal et mort le 10 octobre 2004 à Madison, Wisconsin. Professeur au département de géographie de l'Université du Wisconsin-Madison à partir de 1947 jusqu'à ce qu'il prenne sa retraite en 1980, l'une de ses plus célèbres réalisations est la projection de Robinson en 1963.

Pour son rôle à l'Office of Strategic Services durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il a reçu la Legion of Merit en 1946. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. janvier 1915 – 10. octobre 2004
Arthur H. Robinson: 18   citations 0   J'aime

Arthur H. Robinson: Citations en anglais

“There are few results of man's activities that so closely parallel man's interests and intellectual capabilities as the map.”

Robinson (1965) as cited in: Matthew H. Edney (2008) " Putting “Cartography” into the History of Cartography: Arthur H. Robinson, David Woodward, and the Creation of a Discipline https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10214/1830/36-Edney.pdf?sequence=1"

“Our experience in the Cartographic Section of the [OSS Map] Division clearly showed that the creation of a special purpose map was frequently as much a problem in design as it was a problem in substantive compilation.”

Source: The Look of Maps (1952), p. viii: As cited in: J. Crampton (2011) " Arthur Robinson and the Creation of America's First Spy Agency. http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2011/Oral%20Presentations%20PDF/B4-Maps,%20GIS,%20security%20and%20planning/CO-174.pdf"

“Maps enable man to rise, so to speak, above his immediate range of vision, and contemplate the salient features of larger areas.”

Source: Elements of Cartography (1953), p. 1; A cited in: Les Roberts (2012) Mapping Cultures. p. 142

“The author took the only course in cartography available to him in 1937; it must have been fairly typical of the few being offered in America: lectures based largely on personal experiences were supplemented by a relatively few assigned readings, and by Deetz and Adam’s Elements of Map Projection.”

No textbook was used because there was none in English.
Robinson (1970, p. 189) referring to himself in the third person; As cited in: Jake Coolidge (2009) " Arthur H. Robinson: A Look at a Career http://jakecoolidge.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/arthur-h-robinson-a-look-at-a-career/". Oct 15, 2009

“I decided there ought to be another way of balancing out the various distortions without doing it mathematically.”

Robinson (1990) in The Times; As cited in: Myrna Oliver (2004): About the development of the Robinson projection.

“I started with a kind of artistic approach… I visualized the best-looking shapes and sizes. I worked with the variables until it got to the point where, if I changed one of them, it didn't get any better… [only then I] figure out the mathematical formula to produce that effect.”

Robinson (1988) in The New York Times as cited in: John Noble Wilford (2004) " Arthur H. Robinson, 89, Geographer Who Reinterpreted World Map, Dies http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/15/obituaries/15robinson.html?_r=0" in: The New York Times November 15, 2004: About the development of the Robinson projection.

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