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Why I write Cosmographia
In 1569, Gerardus Mercator, by far the most accomplished cartographer in Europe, and creator of the map projection system still most commonly used…
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Why did humans first build cities?
Environmental circumscription
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Photographs of the Old West
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Photographs of Old Russia
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Photographs of Old Japan
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All Hail the Cloud
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The Khyber Pass
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Archives of the Planet
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Inequality always emerges from the same conditions throughout history
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Written in the stars
A Short History of Mesopotamian Astrology
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Photographs of Old China
Twilight of the Qing Dynasty
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Where should we map next?
Choose our next civilisation to explore
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THE COMING TECTONIC COMPETITION
How tectonics will shape the geopolitics of the next century
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THE TECTONIC ORIGINS OF CIVILISATION
How tectonics creates different types of landscape, which in turn create different types of civilisation
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ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS EMERGED ON TECTONIC PLATE FAULTLINES
Cartographia
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THE STEPPE HAS ALWAYS SHAPED HOW HUMANS MAKE WAR
A brief history of the steppe's influence on military technology, from the chariot to the drone
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THE STEPPE, THE STEPPE
An ode to the grasslands
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