A round-up of the bizarre and brilliant of the web corralled by the University of Portsmouth Library.
An earlier posting (Maps have been lying to you) showed the effect that the Mercator map projection has on the way we perceive the world. The challenge of portraying on a flat surface the essentially spherical shape of our planet …
Yesterday was National Poetry Day. Unfortunately, as is sometimes the way in a busy workplace, all our best intentions fell by the wayside as we dealt with a plethora of enquiries. We failed to blog (as planned) about poems we …
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All maps (necessarily) lie to you. It is impossible to unwrap the surface of the near-spherical Earth and lay it out as a flat sheet, and so cartographers (map makers) have to decide what features they wish to accurately preserve and then then …
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© 2015 University of Portsmouth Library
© 2015 University of Portsmouth Library
© 2015 University of Portsmouth Library
A couple of months ago, you may remember me blogging about my favourite books. Or maybe you don’t. Well, whilst pulling together the threads of fiction that make up the literary tapestry of my life, I rediscovered Tomi Ungerer. Ungerer’s …
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