More good stuff from Modern Mechanix; this time, an item from the April 1930 issue of Popular Science about a combination globe-atlas: it was a globe “with a complete index and gazetteer inside it. Inserted in the globe are two small windows containing magnifying glasses. Inside is a mechanism that reels past this reading glass a fifty-one-foot paper tape bearing place names and descriptions arranged alphabetically.” Why didn’t this catch on?
Combining a Globe and an Atlas
July 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Maps
The Dione Atlas
May 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Atlas, Maps
Cassini’s imaging team has released an atlas of Saturn’s moon Dione. The atlas is available as a set of 15 PDF files at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Via Bad Astronomy and Universe Today.
This is the third atlas of a Saturnian moon that has been released by the Cassini project; similar atlases exist for Enceladus and Phoebe.
Previously: A Map of Dione and a Planetary Gazetteer.
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