My Aunt worked on that map after retiring from being a cartographer for the Oxford University Press and their world Atlases. It was fascinating to see the work that went in to collecting data, drawing and redrawing maps. Things like papers from a court case being discovered lead to observations such as "if such and such happened then the width of street X at this point must have been 2 feet wider" or similar. A painstaking work of love by the whole team, driven by tremendous academic rigour. Fascinating.
It's a great book to have in paper form!
My Aunt worked on that map after retiring from being a cartographer for the Oxford University Press and their world Atlases. It was fascinating to see the work that went in to collecting data, drawing and redrawing maps. Things like papers from a court case being discovered lead to observations such as "if such and such happened then the width of street X at this point must have been 2 feet wider" or similar. A painstaking work of love by the whole team, driven by tremendous academic rigour. Fascinating.