Word: detailism
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...incorporate the travels of Marco Polo a century earlier, and thus sketched a recognizable outline of Asia that would be refined over the next 500 years of exploration. It includes a Europeanate illustration of Beijing and a portrait of the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. Cresques doesn't skimp on detail. He crams each of the Atlas' eight leaves with brilliant illuminations of myths (both biblical and classical), Kings, flags, ships and monsters, as well as the first known depiction of a Silk Road caravan, with caped traders' riding camels across the Taklimakan desert in what is now China's Xinjiang...
...Sadly, the Catalan Atlas, like many of the other maps shrunk down to fit the pages of this book, is so intricate and large that much of its detail is incomprehensible, even with the help of a magnifying glass and a Latin dictionary. Another frustration is that many of the maps' most eye-catching details go unexplained because Nebenzahl's commentary focuses primarily on the historical context. But perhaps this failing is fitting. Presented like this, with their mysteries intact, the maps become, once again, invitations to further explorations. They beckon us into the shadowy waters of the past...
...just five months, what began as a follow-up project to Zuckerberg’s failed HotOrNot.com spin-off, Facemash.com, became an internet phenomenon in the same boat as multimillion dollar companies like Friendster and Tribe. And a sophomore computer science concentrator in Kirkland House, his detail-oriented roommate, and a mutual friend with an eye for business became Silicon Valley executives—de facto CEO, project manager, and CFO, respectively...
Harris and Feister use three subtly different color schemes: the book’s colors seem slightly washed-out in the political scenes, the outdoor scenes are rendered in lush, oil-paint-like detail, and most of Mitchell’s flashbacks are rendered in pale green tints reminiscent of the scenes in the virtual world of The Matrix...
...recently as Tuesday, when several professors renewed their calls for a release of the transcript, Summers said, “I have believed to date that it is not best to try to parse in detail a statement that was a set of informal remarks that were not even written out before they were delivered and were not intended to be quoted...