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Happiest day of my life, was when the Defense Department took down its Mercator... I started learning how to make maps while on an Army payroll. So getting to see mine in the Pentagon, flanked by generals, is a little like being a prophet who is finally honored by his hometown.

— Arthur H. Robinson Robinson (1989)

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

Robinson (1965)

Most scientific cartography is concerned with the dissemination of spatial knowledge.

The Look of Maps (1952)

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

Elements of Cartography (1953)

Today most maps are printed by lithography.

Elements of Cartography (1953)

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

Robinson (1990)

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