“If we then make the obvious assumption that the content of a map is appropriate to its purpose, there yet remains the equally significant evaluation of the visual methods employed to convey that content.”

—  Arthur H. Robinson

Source: The Look of Maps (1952), p. 15

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American geographer 1915–2004

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