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Up until the 18th century, maps were often decorated with fanciful beasts and monsters, at the expense of accurate details about places. French mapmakers of the 1700s and 1800s encouraged the use of more scientific methods in the art they called cartographie. The French word cartographie (the science of making maps), from which we get our English word cartography, was created from carte, meaning "map," and -graphie, meaning "representation by." Around the same time we adopted cartography in the mid-19th century, we also created our word for a mapmaker, cartographer.
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Tom Weijand, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2024
But rather than just document their exploits, the families will each be given $50,000 worth of resources for research and will ultimately present their findings to a panel of scientists, theologians, and cartographers.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 21 June 2024
An estimated 31 million Americans already live on the path this year, compared to just 12 million in 2017, according to eclipse cartographer Michael Zeiler at GreatAmericanEclipse.com.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
Using ultrafast, atom-at-a-time methods, researchers are starting to explore this unmapped region of the periodic table and finding it as fantastical as any medieval cartographer’s imaginings.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
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“Cartographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cartographer. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.
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