Mapping
Saturday, February 2, 2008 by level1librarian
BlewSpace offers a nice, visual way to locate bloggers.
Via LibrarianInBlack.
The Europa Polyglotta map, published in mid-1700s, tries a completely different kind and even more fascinating mapping (for us linguists, at any rate):
“to show the concordances and differences between all the languages spoken in Europe by spelling out the beginning of the Lord’s Prayer in each of them.”
Via American Libraries Direct 1/9/2008.
We’re there, too: Isa meiden joca olet taiwaissa. Pyhitetty H(?)olcon sinum Nymes. [I can’t quite make out all the letter forms.]
This apparently belongs in a set of four similar maps. (Although I think old maps are neat beyond description, I am thankful electronic reference is available!)
