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Spurred by newly discovered coastlines on both sides of the Atlantic, map making had made huge strides during the sixteenth century. Thousands of miles of shorelines were recorded at tremendous speed and equally rapidly assimilated into enormous maps depicting three-quarters of the world’s coasts. After this initial sprint, the pace of new discoveries slowed. So too did innovations in map making, which experienced a century-long lull.
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Gabriel Marcel, ‘Les navigations des Francais dans la mer du sud au xviiie siècle,’ La Géographie (1900): bulletin de la Société de géographie pp. 490–2.
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Seed, P. (2016). Mapping New Spaces. In: Craciun, A., Schaffer, S. (eds) The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-44379-3_8
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