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The art of making pictorial statements in a precise and
repeatable form is one that we have long taken for granted in
the West. But it is usually forgotten that without prints and
blueprints, without maps and geometry, the world of modern
sciences and technologies would hardly exist.
In the time of Ferdinand and Isabella and other maritime
monarchs, maps were top-secret, like new electronic discoveries
today. When the captains returned from their voyages, every
effort was made by the officers of the crown to obtain both
originals and copies of the maps made during the voyage. The
result was a lucrative black-market trade, and secret maps
were widely sold. The sort of maps in question had nothing in
common with those of later design, being in fact more like
diaries of different adventures and experiences. For the later
perception of space as uniform and continuous was unknown