To: Z Analyzer who wrote (696 ) 3/19/1999 1:49:00 PM From: manohar kanuri Respond to
May or may not have anything to do with SEG, (insist on keeping my unblemished record for being OT? <g>), but may be of some interest..... because they are mapped that way . (This is why the Peters projection is odd-looking to those schooled in projections that depict very different shapes of the major landforms.) Signifying artifacts that don't much resemble the geometries of land and water that we know from our maps, but which are used by their authors for similar sorts of navigation and recognizance as we use our maps, are interpretable by us as maplike because they are founded on this steady creep of the map from metaphor to metonymy.[16] In an important sense, Turnbull observes (contradicting Korzybski's famous dictum), >the map is the territory in the minds of its users, because the cultural force of specific maps and shared vocabularies of cartographic elements and techniques overdetermines every perception of the "real" spaces they figure.iath.virginia.edu
