| Marjorie Ferguson, Peter Golding - Social Science - 1997 - 280 pages
...exactitude in Science' (1972). Purporting to come from an old travel book, the story describes how: In that Empire, the craft of Cartography attained...the course of time, these extensive maps were found somewhat wanting, and so the College of Cartographers evolved a map of the Empire that was of the same... | |
| Paul F. Starrs - Architecture - 2000 - 388 pages
...amazing mass hypnosis: "It's the ranching life for me. " 241 Of Land and Life 12 Ranch! ng's Realm In that Empire, the craft of Cartography attained...and so the College of Cartographers evolved a Map of Empire that was of the same Scale as the Empire and that coincided with it point for point, less attentive... | |
| Ronald Dean Cameron, Merrill P. Miller - Religion - 2004 - 557 pages
...territory it is designed to represent, and which we quote in its entirety: ... In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those... | |
| Jonathan Z. Smith - Religion - 2004 - 429 pages
...around: Borges's "Exactitude in Science" (1946), which I quote in its entirety. In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, these... | |
| Gunnar Olsson - Science - 2010 - 569 pages
...Borges' own(?) version of the same story is in his text "On Exactitude in Science," where he tells how "in that Empire, the craft of Cartography attained...the course of Time, these Extensive maps were found somewhat wanting, and so the College of Cartographers evolved a Map of the Empire that was of the same... | |
| Eduardo Mendieta - Philosophy - 2012 - 236 pages
...[1935]), which I will quote, since in quintessential Borgesian style, it is pithy but profoundly telling: "In that Empire, the craft of Cartography attained such Perfection that the Map of a Single providence covered the space of an entire city, and the Map of the Empire itself an entire Province.... | |
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