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

— Arthur H. Robinson Elements of Cartography (1953)

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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)

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)

While doing illustrative work for Roderick Peattie, from him I learned the value of the unorthodox.

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